Robin Petrie is an American

santur The santur (also ''santūr'', ''santour'', ''santoor'') ( fa, سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻU ...

and

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more trad ...

player. Petrie has been performing popular and seldom-heard hammered dulcimer music since 1980. She is heard regularly on

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. Though focusing initially on

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and

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music, her current work includes music from many cultures around the globe. Petrie owns but does not actually play an 1875 Mackenzie piano harp, patented and built in

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along the lines of a small

spinet A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. Harpsichords When the term ''spinet'' is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the ''bentside spinet'', described in this ...

. About 30 Mackenzie piano harps are known to survive today. She actually plays an instrument built by the Texas maker, Russell Cook, and a santur made in Athens, Greece. She lives in

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Discography

;Solo albums * ''A Victorian Christmas'' -

Gourd Music Gourd Music is a record label featuring acoustic instrumental music with various ensembles of guitar, cello, flute, oboe, harp, fiddle, hammered and mountain dulcimer, banjo and mandolin. Gourd Music was founded by Neal Hellman in 1988. Genres pub ...

* ''A Victorian Noel'' -

;Performer * ''Panacea - Songs and Dances of Europe East and West'' (2005) * ''Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster'' (Emergent label) 2004

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winner * ''Oktober County'' * ''Dream of the Manatee'' * ''Simple Gifts'' * ''The World Turned Upside Down'' * ''Tree of Life'' * ''Autumn in the Valley'' * ''Wondrous Love'' ;With Danny Carnahan * ''Cut and Run'' * ''Two for the Road'' (Flying Fish Records, 1984) * ''Continental Drift'' (Flying Fish,1987) * ''Journeys of the Heart'' (Celtoid, 1989) * ''No Regrets'' (DNA Records, 1989) * ''Cut And Run'' (Red House Records, 1995)

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women percussionists Santur players Hammered dulcimer players Flying Fish Records artists Red House Records artists {{US-musician-stub