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		<title>The Indian Santoor</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2012/04/08/the-indian-santoor-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammered Dulcimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Santoor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nitin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve become increasingly interested in other instruments in the worldwide dulcimer family so when Dipu Deshmukh (an accomplished Esraj player and father to my son&#8217;s fiancee) indicated he knew a Santoor player who might be willing to be interviewed, I jumped at the chance.  I was not disappointed.  Nitin Pandit and his family graciously put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tonewoods</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2011/10/27/tonewoods-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instrument Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Redwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spruce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonewoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Red Cedar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Red Cedar and I on the Olympic Peninsula Garret our youngest son has taken a shine to the West of late so we have been doing some traveling out in that direction over the last few years.  We love the natural environment, our parks and seem to have a logical attraction to trees of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yangqin</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2011/08/12/the-yangqin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammered Dulcimer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chinese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yangqin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been fascinated by the Chinese yangqin. In the world of trapezoidal instruments struck by “hammers”, the contemporary yangqin rivals the cymbalom in its range and complexity. The yangqin is a relative newcomer to Chinese music. The instrument’s name provides a clue that it originated from abroad—yang means “foreign” and qin is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound hole Designs</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2011/03/28/sound-hole-designs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammered Dulcimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instrument Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sound board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sound hole]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Making unique artistic sound hole images has always been integral to the overall design of my hammered dulcimers. My first sound hole designs were heavily influenced by Richard Amarnick, a fellow art student who cut original works out of paper. He would often cut up menus and napkins and leave the results on restaurant tables. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsimbl</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2011/01/11/tsimbl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hammered Dulcimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsimbl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromatic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[klezmer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I don&#8217;t sell a lot of them, I offer another version of the hammered dulcimer, the tsimbl. This fully chromatic instrument is a close relative to the full sized cimbalom. The layout is quite different then the traditional fifth interval American version of the hammer dulcimer but seems to suite players who play more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precautions</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2010/11/14/precautions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instrument Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humidity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the heating season, I&#8217;ll throw out my usual advice about instrument care. Keep the humidity up! Wood in an instrument remains hydroscopic for most of its life. That means that the cells in the wood will absorb or release moisture in response to the relative humidity in the environment. In layman&#8217;s terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9/9 Hammered Dulcimer</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2010/11/02/99-hammered-dulcimer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Cone needed a small lightweight hammered dulcimer in a range suitable for playing Medieval or Renaissance music. We came up with a 9/9 (9 treble and 9 bass course) dulcimer. The range is approximately the lower two thirds of the common 12/11. The dulcimer weighs 10 lbs and is 38&#8243; X 11 1/2&#8243; with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Octave Bowed Psaltery</title>
		<link>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2010/10/23/four-octave-bowed-psaltery/</link>
		<comments>http://jamesjonesinstruments.com/blog/2010/10/23/four-octave-bowed-psaltery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jones Instruments</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bowed Psaltery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[four octave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matthew coley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psaltery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I make a couple different sizes of bowed psalteries, the two and half octave Alto and the two octave Soprano. I wasn&#8217;t ever expecting to make a four octave instrument but experimental performer/composer at Iowa State Matthew Coley decided he wanted to try to incorporate this instrument into his mix. I can&#8217;t wait to hear [...]]]></description>
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