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Hammered dulcimer

Index Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. [1]

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  1. 88 relations: Alps, Appalachian dulcimer, Appenzell, Assyria, Autoharp, Babylonia, Bavaria, Billy Bennington, Bridge (instrument), Caning (furniture), Central Europe, Chinese language, Chorus (audio effect), Chromatic scale, Cimbalom, Circle of fifths, Course (music), Czech language, Diatonic scale, East Anglia, Eastern Europe, English-speaking world, Envelope (music), Equal temperament, Felt, Folk music, French language, German language, Greco-Roman world, Greek language, Hacksaw, Hardwood, Harp, Harpsichord, Italian language, John Rea (musician), Khim, Khmer language, Korean language, Latin, List of hammered dulcimer players, Major scale, Mallet, Mandolin, Middle East, Mixolydian mode, New York (state), Norfolk, Northumbria, Octave, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. American musical instruments
  3. Arabic musical instruments
  4. Austrian musical instruments
  5. Celtic musical instruments
  6. English musical instruments
  7. German musical instruments
  8. Hammered box zithers
  9. Polish musical instruments
  10. Romanian musical instruments
  11. Ukrainian musical instruments
  12. Welsh musical instruments

Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Appalachian dulcimer

The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. Hammered dulcimer and Appalachian dulcimer are American musical instruments and German musical instruments.

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Appenzell

Appenzell was a canton in the northeast of Switzerland, and entirely surrounded by the canton of St. Gallen, in existence from 1403 to 1597.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Autoharp

An autoharp or chord zither is a string instrument belonging to the zither family. Hammered dulcimer and autoharp are American musical instruments.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Billy Bennington

Billy Bennington (1900 – 18 October 1986) was an English hammered dulcimer player.

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Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

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Caning (furniture)

In the context of furniture, caning is a method of weaving chair seats and other furniture, either while building new chairs or in the process of cane chair repair.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Chorus (audio effect)

Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.

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Cimbalom

The cimbalom, cimbal or concert cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath. Hammered dulcimer and cimbalom are hammered box zithers, Romanian musical instruments and Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Circle of fifths

In music theory, the circle of fifths (sometimes also cycle of fifths) is a way of organizing pitches as a sequence of perfect fifths.

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Course (music)

A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

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Diatonic scale

In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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English-speaking world

The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.

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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

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Felt

Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibers together.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Greco-Roman world

The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Hacksaw

A hacksaw is a fine-toothed saw, originally and mainly made for cutting metal.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Hammered dulcimer and harpsichord are early musical instruments.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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John Rea (musician)

John Rea was a hammered dulcimer player from Glenarm in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Khim

The khim (ขิม; ຂິມ; ឃឹម) is a stringed musical instrument derived from the Mesopotamian or Persian Santur. Hammered dulcimer and khim are hammered box zithers.

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Khmer language

Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of hammered dulcimer players

Noted musicians who play the hammered dulcimer include the following.

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Major scale

The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.

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Mallet

A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. Hammered dulcimer and mandolin are American musical instruments, German musical instruments and Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mixolydian mode

Mixolydian mode may refer to one of three things: the name applied to one of the ancient Greek harmoniai or tonoi, based on a particular octave species or scale; one of the medieval church modes; or a modern musical mode or diatonic scale, related to the medieval mode.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Paul Van Arsdale

Paul Van Arsdale (October 19, 1920 – March 29, 2018) was an American hammered dulcimer player from North Tonawanda in upstate New York.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Percussion mallet

A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Psaltery

A psaltery (ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer.

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Qanun (instrument)

The qanun, kanun, ganoun or kanoon (qānūn; k’anon; qānūn; kanonáki, qanun; قانون, qānūn; kanun; qanun) is a Middle Eastern string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of Iran, Arab East, and Arab Maghreb region of North Africa, later it reached West Africa, Central Asia due to Arab migration. Hammered dulcimer and qanun (instrument) are Arabic musical instruments and early musical instruments.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Salterio

Salterio is the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese term for either of two types of zither: the hammered dulcimer or psaltery. Hammered dulcimer and Salterio are hammered box zithers.

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Sam Rizzetta

Sam Rizzetta (born May 23, 1942 died October 26, 2021) was a hammered dulcimer player, builder, and designer originally from Chicago, had lived in Inwood, West Virginia.

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Santoor

The Indian santoor instrument is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer, and a variation of the Iranian santur. Hammered dulcimer and santoor are hammered box zithers.

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Santur

The santur (also santūr, santour, santoor) (سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins. Hammered dulcimer and santur are Arabic musical instruments and hammered box zithers.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music.

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Sound board (music)

A soundboard (occasionally called a sounding board) is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spoke

A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Tambourine de Bearn

The string drum or Tambourin de Béarn (in German) is a long rectangular box zither beaten with a mallet. Hammered dulcimer and Tambourine de Bearn are early musical instruments.

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Tatar language

Tatar (татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.

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Tetrachord

In music theory, a tetrachord (τετράχορδoν; tetrachordum) is a series of four notes separated by three intervals.

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Thai language

Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).

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Tiompan

The tiompán (Irish), tiompan (Scottish Gaelic), or timpan (Welsh) was a stringed musical instrument used by musicians in medieval Ireland and Britain.

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Trapezoid

In geometry, a trapezoid in North American English, or trapezium in British English, is a quadrilateral that has one pair of parallel sides.

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Tsymbaly

The tsymbaly (цимбали) is the Ukrainian version of the hammer dulcimer. Hammered dulcimer and tsymbaly are hammered box zithers and Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Tuning wrench

A tuning wrench (also called a tuning lever or tuning hammer) is a specialized socket wrench used to tune string instruments, such as the piano, harp, and hammer dulcimer, that have strings wrapped around tuning pins.

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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.

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Unison

In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the same time.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.

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West Asia

West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.

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Yanggeum

The yanggeum is a traditional Korean string instrument. Hammered dulcimer and yanggeum are hammered box zithers.

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Yangqin

The trapezoidal yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, likely derived from the Iranian santur or the European dulcimer. Hammered dulcimer and yangqin are hammered box zithers.

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Zither

Zithers (from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments. Hammered dulcimer and Zither are German musical instruments, Polish musical instruments and Ukrainian musical instruments.

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See also

American musical instruments

Arabic musical instruments

Austrian musical instruments

Celtic musical instruments

English musical instruments

German musical instruments

Hammered box zithers

Polish musical instruments

Romanian musical instruments

Ukrainian musical instruments

Welsh musical instruments

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammered_dulcimer

Also known as Four Hammer Dulcimer, Hackbrett, Hackebret, Hackebrett, Hammer Dulcimer, Hammer-dulcimer, Hammered dulcimers, Santoor players, Santuri, Tympanon.

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