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As a professor of a variety of music classes,
including woodwind pedagogy and
ethnomusicology at several local colleges
and universities in the St. Louis area, Dr.
Hartenberger uses her instruments as teaching
tools. And she was definite: "I feel more pride
in being a teacher than a collector and having
found a home for my instruments so that they
can continue to teach."
All of the instruments are functional and can
be played, but on our hour-and-a-half tour, she
demonstrated how to play only some, though
admitting with a twinkle in her eye, "I've tried
them all out." As if introducing friends, she held
up instruments, one by one. saying their names,
even the ones difficult to pronounce (such as
tsuzumi, teponaxtle, ayotl, horagai, and mbira
dzavadzimu). We looked puzzled. So she spelled
each of them to make sure that we knew exactly
what they were called.
She is passionate about why she thinks we
have musical instruments: "Mankind takes
everything he learns — his mathematics,
his science, his technology, his history, his
communication skills — and with his emotions
creates musical instruments to express the beauty
of his humanity."
Jayne I. Hanlin is an
initiate of Alpha Omicron
and current member of
the St. Louis Alumnae
chapter. Mrs. Hanlin, the
sister of famed pianist
Malcolm Frager, is the co-
author of Learning Latin Through Mythology
(Cambridge University Press, 1991).
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A WORLD OF MUSIC
FOR MORE INFORMATION
the Hartenberger World
Music Collection online, visit
hwmconline.com
At far left, a Shoko, used at a Japanese
Coronation in 1912. At near left, a Putorino of
the New Zealand Maori. At top, a Japanese 0
Tsuzumi. Above, a Sudanese lyre.
Above, Buccin from the French
Revolution. At right, Pre-Columbian
Panpipes of the Inca, c. 1500.
