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This image was taken just before the Montreal show by our lovely and multi-talented friend
Veronika von Volkova.
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In rehearsal at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montreal (low tech camera from here on)
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The set-up for
Fernando Rocha's hyper-kalimba![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVu2dHbKfgeemWl5s6dvLCUKvZovCb8fQEU1wF5wuVMcs7zC_4kBxcagJxbDWnwKFjvkp6jPHVf2DmkQNZGN8b4JuCnlVbJ4KhUy5tt3EJl_Wt81gc2b7CNRykc0E6hAzkdOX/s320/DSC01998.JPG)
Katelyn Clark doing some last-minute tuning before a concert. This instrument is a 1772 original, requiring the tuning to be at 415, and the parts transposed!
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While
some of our acquaintances suggest sawing off the toy piano cases at the rods to make travel easier, we could not possibly do this to our
lovely Schoenhut models.
Labels: hyper-kalimba, Schoenhut, tuning, Veronika von Volkova