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Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:23am

Listening to Music With...Sarah Weiss

A Different Drum

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Published Friday, April 4, 2008
The sounds emanating from Professor Sarah Weiss’s laptop are difficult to describe. “It’s like water droplets being played,” she says, referring to the bell-like timbre of the tuned drums. “And then there’s this squeaky little oboe-type thing, and then there’s this mainland, Southeast Asian tiny cymbaline,” she adds, speeding up her description (and pantomime) to match the playful accelerando of the track.
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