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Mat\u011bj \u010c\xedp, a musician from a small village in Moravia, has devoted his life to playing the cimbalom, a\xa0hammered dulcimer\xa0from Central-Eastern Europe. After graduating from the Ostrava conservatory, he went on to study at the Northern State University in South Dakota, becoming the first ever cimbalom student at university level in the United States. He is now heading to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in New York City for his Master\u2019s degree. His ambition is to spread the awareness of the instrument all over the world. I met with Mat\u011bj shortly before his departure to the US and I started by asking what brought him to study the cimbalom in the first place: