> Besides the strummed dulcimer, ignoring octaves and sympathetic drones, > can anyone think of an instrument which (sometimes) employs > duplicated-pitch open courses?
Japanese Koto. I have no idea about the various other kinds (Korean, Chinese), but can imagine it's more or less the same for these: there are several standard tunings and for the rest anything goes. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html