Re: Need Yiddish Vocabulary for Music -- sidebar

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Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:

> Abelson's "English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary" (1924) defines bagpipes
> as a 'dudl-zak' or 'zak-fayf'

Thanks, Reyzl, for your most instructive post;  it's a keeper.

People may be interested to know that in vernacular Yiddish
a "zak-fayfer" (besides being a bagpipe-player)  is also
a "bullsh*tter" (or, stated more politely, --  a "blowhard".)

Wolf

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