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[ Saturday, Feb. 12; 8pm; First Church Cambridge Congregational] Huun Huur Tu, the Throat Singers of Tuva employ a vocal technique called khöömei, which allows a vocalist to produce two or three notes simultaneously. The sound that comes out is usually something along the lines of a high-pitched whistle layered over a low, buzzy drone. By trade, the throat singers are actually horsemen and cowboys, herding goats, sheep and reindeer in Tuva, the independent republic that borders Mongolia. On stage, their singing is accompanied by tradition string and percussion instruments such as the igil (vertical fiddle), doshpulur (a banjo-like lute), byzaanchi (a cello-like bowed instrument) and khomuz (the Tuvan jaw harp). 02/08/11
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