Re: Need Yiddish Vocabulary for Music

[Itzik Gottesman <itzik...>]

According to Stuchkov's entry under "muzik-instrumentn, shtim" group 286,
pages 256-257, the following are listed under the "flute" category:
"fleyt, fyol, shtolper [klezmer language], aktavfleyt, pifero, fayfyol,
tibye, pikolo, flazsholet" . So piccolo is listed in this group.

 A paragraph later he has another grouping " fayf, fayfl, fifak, verbl,
dude, dudke, svistok, svistshun, visl [american], fabrikfayfl, hudok,
gudok, liaremfayfl, sirene, dampfayfl, damffayfl etc"

I thought Paula/Perl's suggestion of "fayfl" for recorder was a good one.

As you see, Stuchkov includes some klezmer jargon. Other terms he lists:
clarinet - vursht (as in sausage, salami)
fiddle - varplye
trumpet - tshaynik [yes, as in "hak mir nit in."]
drum- tshekal
drummer - tshekalnik
klezmer - labroshnik
cantor - zhokhalnik

- Itzik



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