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When Trapezoid put out its first sounds together [in 1975], everyone was so astonished by the clarity and energy of the music -- the originality of four hammered dulcimers playing rags, reels, and jigs together -- that the band struck a note of instant popularity. With its eclectic repertoire, the band is not trapped by the notion that the music has to sound just like the musical strains of earlier times. Rather, from both an understa… MORE