Tim Rayborn

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Tim Rayborn is a notable American-born musician and singer who has accomplished himself in the music of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Turkey, Iran, and the Balkans. His musical interests began with medieval music, and he studied harpsichord at the Dominican College of San Rafael. He began studying music at the age of seven, when he first learned to play the guitar. From there it was on to heavy metal and then (logically enough) early music, which has been one of his main loves since the mid-80s. He studied harpsichord at Dominican College of San Rafael, California, and developed an interest in music written prior to the year 1400. He later cultivated a passion for traditional music from North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and India. He has devoted much of his musical activities over the past eleven years to the study and performance of these styles, both in America and Europe. He has studied medieval music and improvisation with Shira Kammen, and Arabic percussion with Peter Maund. Tim himself has taught a number of early music workshops in Europe for harp and medieval/Arabic percussion, and they even paid him for it! As well as singing, he plays numerous Occidental and Oriental musical instruments, including: * Various plucked strings (medieval harp, medieval psaltery, Arabic qanun, Iranian santur, Egyptian simsimiyya, Anglo-Saxon lyre, Hebrew kinnor, Ethiopian krar, Finnish Kantele, Welsh crwth, West African donso ngoni) * Several types of

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