klez accordion & tsimbl

[Ernie Gruner / Cathy Dowden <erniegru...>]

Thankyou for the accordion answers and comments.

Would it be a reasonable guess to say that something like a diatonic button
accordion started replacing the tsimbl in europe in the early 1800's? I
can't remember the tsimbl queries but when did it decline?

Does anyone know a maker/seller of a portable tsimbl?


ps No thanks for the accordion jokes, I have enough problems with brides
who don't want an accordion at their chuppah. In cases where my praise for
accordions is lost but they want 2 instruments, sometimes I play chords on
fiddle to back my clarinettist, or we do some ad lib harmonies. In future I
might suggest guitar or mandola as an option, although I don't hear a lot
of the plucked string sound on old klez recordings and I'm in a
traditionalist phase.
I feel a need to relate an episode at a folk festival I was at recently -
one group of campers erected a sign with a red circle and slash stating
Banjo Free Zone - apologies to banjoists - some of my best friends are
........

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