[NetBehaviour] one thirty-nine in the morning and long-necked saz

[Alan Sondheim]

one thirty-nine in the morning and long-necked saz

https://youtu.be/N5hH2Ku8X5A video

long-necked saz which i've described before, a truly wonderful
instrument with 8 strings in this configuration, the grace of
movement along the long neck of course, the body with the small
door that may be opened changing the sound, the supplication and
the care necessary to preserve and play it, and as i mentioned a
long time ago, traced the maker to a workshop in turkey and was
able to contact the his son since this is a true survivor and it
was as i mentioned before amir vahab who restored it and i feel
if there were a spirit they would be listening not to my playing
but to the sound of the instrument itself and i remember seeing
it in music inn in new york and then hearing just the sound and
there was an ethiopian 78 record decades and decades ago that
had a phrase that opened up within this and my false memories
tell me this was played first in the thin air of mars which
could not sustain the tone but the long-necked saz even there
triumphed and i worry when i pass who will play this and make
certain it survives everything today so fragile so becoming
unbecoming raveled and unraveled may the sound continue and may
it continue well and beyond the sound