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Added by Admin on Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 02:57 PM
The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Hungarian folk musicians, the basis of their orchestra. The cimbalom we know today was perhaps developed in 13th C. Persia. In Iran and the Caucasus region it has remained popular to the present day, under the name of santur.
The original version of the cimbalom, placed on a table and having neither legs nor damper pedal, once enjoyed popularity throughout Europe, from Austria to Britain and from Spain to Italy. In Hungary today it is call "kiscimbalom", meaning small cimbalom. In the 1870's Jozsef Schunda's instrument factory in Budapest developed the modern enlarged cimbalom.
Large cimbaloms stand on 4 legs, with a 4-octave chromatic range, and damper pedals like a piano. The early smaller cimbalom formed part of the earliest known folk band, that of Panna Czinka, who died in 1772. The large cimbalom is now a fundamental part of the folk band.
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