Talk:Cimbalom

message: Now the cimbalom page needs a good photo of a folk Cimbal, Tsymbaly or Ṭambal!! - Bandurist? - Anyone?? Page also needs a good photo of a second concert instrument with legs. I'll take one of mine soon. It is being restrung next week after a re-restoration Jeffreyholsen (talk) 05:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: If, as this article current states, "cimbalom" is the most common spelling, why is the article titled "Cymbalum"? — Jeff Q 18:12, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully support such a move to cimbalom. If I weren't so dang lazy I'd do it myself. (Hint: if you do move it, be sure to take care of all the pages which link to this article.) ==ILike2BeAnonymous 06:38, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The Cimbalom is taught in the Conservatories in Ukraine and is pushing out the traditional folk instrument in Ukraine. there is some who are against this. In belarus the Cymbalom is not used at all, and all they use is the folk variety. The Belarus have an amazing technique using small hammers and holding them differently. There is a lot of hand work because there are no damper erdals. The range is smaller and the repertoire quite different because it does not have he lower two octaves of strings as on the Schunda. Bandurist (talk) 22:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most common spelling 

message: Please remove the list of 'prominent' cimbalom players.
This has turned into a place for every minor cimbalom player to attempt to promote his band. Honestly are there vast lists of prominent players on other musical instrument pages? As a cimbalom player myself and one who would never stoop to attempting to advertise myself on Wikipedia, I can smell the self promotion in that list a mile off...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.198.166 (talk) 06:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove list of players! 

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message: This article currently includes: A "cymbalum" is not the same instrument as a cimbalom. A "cymbalum" is a part of a medieval instrument...  However, "cymbalum" dates back to Greece-Roman antiquity. These were essentially varieties of cymbals (not resembling dulcimers in any way).
See: Article by Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
on pp381‑382 of 
William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.
From: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Cymbalum.html
~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 03:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cymbalum" 

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replies: text: In response to the Ipcress File and espionage, Dave Grusin also used a cimbalom in the title theme of the 1975 movie, "Three Days of the Condor" starring Robert Redford. 108.203.158.37 (talk) 00:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A comprehensive explanation of this is conspicuously lacking from both articles. I'd say it's simply regional terminology differences. These two articles could well be merged. 195.187.108.4 (talk) 18:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any significant differences between cymbalum & [[hammered dulcimer]]? 

message: § Cimbalom#History includes the following: 
: Building on the struck chordophones common to the region, the Hungarian concert cimbalom was designed and created by V. Josef Schunda in 1874 in Budapest. The impetus to create such an elaborate instrument – a more formal "concert" cimbalom – was in part, born out of a broader effort to establish a stronger 18th-century Hungarian national identity.
The year 1874 was in the nineteenth century, not the eighteenth. I am correcting it.
--Thnidu (talk) 17:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  18th century 

message: Hi folks, over the years this article has collected a lot of stray lists and content relating to specific modern performers, possibly some of which are self-promotion by minor artists. I am thinking it needs a drastic amount of cleanup limiting the artists mentioned to those who are mentioned in connection with the instrument in secondary sources.  I would also think maybe the article should be focused more on the concert cimbalom and less about folk dulcimers of various kinds.--Dan Carkner (talk) 18:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article could use a cleanup 

message: Can we also add a section to reference related instruments - such as this section: Qanun_(instrument)#See_also? If people are okay with this suggestion, I could add it, and cross reference this page from some of the other related pages as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmkaram (talk • contribs) 18:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: They should be mentioned somehow. Not too long ago I cut a huge list from the article that gave lists of similar instruments in different countries as well as a section on some experimental instruments that have little to do with the cimbalom. You can see how it was in this older version. My feeling is that mentioning a few things like Hammered Dulcimers in the intro section would be enough, and in the section that explains the development of the cimbalom. But of course it's not only up to me...--Dan Carkner (talk) 20:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

text: Part of my concern is that the article doesn't spend enough time saying what a cimbalom actually is (well sourced descriptions of the origin of the instrument, its usage and so on) but was just a collection of a lot of low hanging fruit like linking to other topics or mentioning random artists or schools without any sourced explanation of their significance.--Dan Carkner (talk) 20:17, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cross-referencing similar/related instruments