Robin Petrie
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Robin Petrie is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 santour and hammered dulcimer
Hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board. Typically, the hammered dulcimer is set on a stand, at an angle, before the musician, who holds small mallet hammers in each hand to strike the strings...

 player. Petrie has been performing popular and seldom-heard hammered dulcimer music since 1980. She is heard regularly on National Public Radio. Though focusing initially on British Isles
British Isles
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 and French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 music, her current work includes music from many cultures around the globe.

Petrie owns but does not actually play an 1875 Mackenzie Piano Harp, patented and built in Minneapolis along the lines of a small spinet. About 30 Mackenzie piano harps are known to survive today. She in fact plays an instrument by Texas maker Russell Cook, and a santour made in Athens, Greece.

She lives in northern California
Northern California
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Discography

Solo Albums

A Victorian Christmas - Gourd Music
Gourd Music
Gourd Music is a record label featuring acoustic, instrumental music. With various ensembles of guitar, cello, flute, oboe, harp, fiddle, hammered and mountain dulcimer, banjo, mandolin and more.Gourd Music was founded by Neal Hellman in 1987....



A Victorian Noel - Gourd Music
Gourd Music
Gourd Music is a record label featuring acoustic, instrumental music. With various ensembles of guitar, cello, flute, oboe, harp, fiddle, hammered and mountain dulcimer, banjo, mandolin and more.Gourd Music was founded by Neal Hellman in 1987....



Performer

Panacea - Songs and Dances of Europe East and West | 2005

Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster (Emergent label) 2004 Grammy Winner

Oktober County

Dream of the Manatee

Simple Gifts

The World Turned Upside Down

Tree of Life

Autumn in the Valley

Wondrous Love

With Danny Carnahan

Cut and Run

Two for the Road

Continental Drift

Journeys of the Heart

No Regrets

External links

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