Re: flute in klezmer music

[Sapoznik <Sapoznik...>]

In a message dated 4/1/00 8:03:43 PM, owend (at) tp(dot)net writes:

<< Perhaps Henry can vouch for the authenticity of this (I was there, but
having been seated, have no standing):

Question to Leon Schwartz from a Klez-kamper (at a discussion chaired by
Michael Alpert) concerning the presence of the flute in kapelyes in
Bukovina:

"Was it a wooden flute?"

Leon replied:  "It was a wooden flute, and sometimes it wooden work!"

That, ipso facto, may be the answer.
 >>

Owen, right you are. But you weren't seated. You were then, as now, out 
standing.

Henry

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