4 Comments

1. 
   Brandon Nix

   January 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm

   Have you ever tried to play a Suona, Patty?
2. 
   Patty

   January 26, 2011 at 7:12 pm

   Nope. Never even held one in my hands.
3. 
   WestwindBob

   January 27, 2011 at 2:58 pm

   I’ve got a couple of these tourist knockoffs of these in different sizes. One day in San Francisco’s Chinatown in an old Chinese apothecary shop presided over by a wizened old Chinese woman in a silk robe, I saw a dusty jar full of the palm leaf reeds they use. Excited, I bought a handful of them. (They worked well when I got home.)

   As I was paying for them, I asked what the name of the instrument was. She said something sounding like, “Deed-Tah'”. I asked, “How do you spell that?”

   She took a slip of paper and drew the idiogram. I still have it somewhere…
4. 
   Patty

   January 27, 2011 at 3:02 pm

   I’d love to go find an instrument or two, eve if they are tourist knockoffs, Bob!