RE: Klezmer Clarinet

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Alana,

I meant Jews in Eastern Europe, especially before the War.  

I knew that bagpipes are an old tradition in Spain.  They are where 
ever the Celts resided.  In fact, I saw some beautiful old ones at 
the anthropological museum in Madrid four years ago with beautiful 
incised native designs on them.  (Could have even been made by Jews 
who used to do fancy leather works in Spain.)  But I didn't know if 
Sephardic Jews had and/or transmitted such a bagpipe musical tradition 
after their exile.  What else can you tell us about traditional use of 
bagpipes in Sephardic and Mizrachi music?     


Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky


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From:  the Cheshire Cat[SMTP:alanacat (at) wam(dot)umd(dot)edu]
Sent:  Friday, January 23, 1998 1:54 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:  RE: Klezmer Clarinet

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:
> 
> music and a new sound, as they will happily tell you.   Does anyone 
> have any citation of bagpipes being used by Jews or in Jewish contexts?   
> Wish someone would find some 'cause I would imagine that if Jews had 

Yes!
Sephardic and Mizrachi music traditionally uses bagpipes. (In Spain,
particularly, it was common to use a bagpipe made from the hide of an
 entire kid). I think it very likely that Balkan Jewish musicians also
used bagpipes, although I can't cite from the top of my head.

Alana Suskin