Re: How much research do you do?

Tim S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> on 2/12/03 11:22 pm, Suzanne A Blom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > For my current novel set 3000years from now(actually slightly more) set
in
> > Tashkent, I've got the best map of Tashkent( in Cyrillic, I'm afraid) I
can
> > find spread out on my desk, & I've gone thru a Turkish-English
dictionary
> > once for names(They're a nostalgic people--in some ways). I've looked up
> > Uzbek on ebay.  I wish I could find out more about Uzbek musice.
>
> I've danced to Uzbek music, in Samarkand. It's very...um...Turkish. And
> jolly. And...um...twangy.
>
> It's the usual jolly twangy sort of Islamic folk music.
>
> Er...<cough>
>
> Look, I'm not a musicologist, all right? And it was a long time ago.
>
> Tim
> Jolly dancing non-musicologist.

Hey, that's more than I had before. Thanks.