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RE: tuba and truba
- From: Michael \"Mike\" Don Davis <MDavis...>
- Subject: RE: tuba and truba
- Date: Wed 13 Sep 2000 18.07 (GMT)
TUBA is fine, never mind about Tutsyah.
Michael Davis
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From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of itzik (at)
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:37 AM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: tuba and truba
Can't help you with "tutsya", but i was looking at Mark Warshavsky's
songs written at the end of the 19th century (author of "afn
pripetshik") and he has a song called "mendl trubatsh" about a jew who
was in the russian army and given the "truba" to play. Well, mark, if
your Jewish name is mendl then you have a new nickname. Stutchkof's
Yiddish thesauras does not have the word "tuba", only "truba", while
Weinreich's dictionary only has "tuba" for tuba. So we have two words
in Yiddish for tuba, "tuba" and "truba", and the tubist is a
"trubatsh".- Itzik G
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