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Re: Yiddish terms

B"H Kiryas Arba

Yiddish for drummer is <<poykler>> (var. "paykler"), from the instrument
<<poyk>>.  As in the Rebbi Eli Meylekh lyric.

Eve Sicular
Metropolitan Klezmer
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From the German "Pauker", timpanist, 
from the German "Pauken", timpani.

(Or, if you like, from the Yiddish "polke,"
 from the chicken leg, known as a "drumstick."
See under "fligel.")

Alex Jacobowitz
Rural Klezmer

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