Re: how many hands has Joseph Moskowitz?

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

More Moskowitz trivia:  According to Gus Horvath, who about 1930-1932
was in New York staying with relatives while learning the cimbalom 
from Bela Zsiga, Moscowitz's restaurant had a sign painted with his 
cimbalom. Gus never went in, as he was a teenager, and he said 
Moskowitz's music was "different"--- Gus and his people were Gypsies 
(from western Pennsylvania, but of Slovak origin), living in Little 
Hungary. 

If anyone is seriously looking into Moskowitz artifacts, maybe the 
family of Michel Weiner, the violinist who owned the restaurant in 
Washington, D.C., where he played, should be located. He had a son 
Stanley (violinist) and a son Ted (cellist). To the extent that I 
looked, both of the latter seem to be dead; Stanley spent most of his 
life in Germany, I think, and was a composer. Ted also made a 10" LP 
on Romany, like Moskowitz, but the latter wasn't on it. Same with 
the Michel LP, a 12" LP, featuring Hungarian and Romanian music.

Does anyone know how long Michel's Restaurant lasted after 1954? 
Janos Hosszu came from Hungary in 1957, made a record, and settled in 
Washington. I talked to his wife in 1979 and he was old and infirm 
then. Did he take Moskowitz's place there? 

Paul Gifford

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