Re: klez accordion & tsimbl

[Andy Rubin <andyrubin...>]

Hi Ernie-   Imagine, people wanting a banjo-free zone! What will they want
to do without next, food? air? :)

-Andy Rubin  (One of your banjo-playing cyber-friends.)
Sacramento, CA



>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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