Re: flute in klezmer music

[Rachel Fischer <ruchelk...>]

today there are very good flutes and piccolos. i was just wondering why it
hasn't become more popular as a klezmer instrument.
rachel

Sapoznik (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> 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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