Quick Facts
Biography
Robin Petrie is an American santour and hammered dulcimer player. Petrie has been performing popular and seldom-heard hammered dulcimer music since 1980. She is heard regularly on National Public Radio. Though focusing initially on British Isles and French music, her current work includes music from many cultures around the globe.
Petrie owns but does not actually play an 1875 Mackenzie Piano Harp, patented and built in Minneapolis along the lines of a small spinet. About 30 Mackenzie piano harps are known to survive today. She in fact plays an instrument by Texas maker Russell Cook, and a santour made in Athens, Greece.
She lives in northern California.[1]
Discography
Solo Albums
A Victorian Christmas - Gourd Music
A Victorian Noel - Gourd Music
Performer
Panacea - Songs and Dances of Europe East and West | 2005
Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster (Emergent label) 2004 Grammy Winner
Oktober County
Dream of the Manatee
Simple Gifts
The World Turned Upside Down
Tree of Life
Autumn in the Valley
Wondrous Love
With Danny Carnahan
Cut and Run
Two for the Road
Continental Drift
Journeys of the Heart
No Regrets