Tazin

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Does anyone know what a "tazin" is?  It is mentioned in a yizkor book
(excerpt below) as being a percussion instrument of some kind.
Helen
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/gorodenka/gor099.html
The book of Horodenka
(Gorodenka, Ukraine)
Translation of Sefer Horodenka
Edited by: Sh. Meltzer
Published in Tel Aviv, 1963


In Horodenka there was a band consisting of Kalman Rosenkrantz and his son,
Hersh-Koppel, the fiddler; Mendel Oispresser, the flutist; and the three
Guttman brothers. Aaron Guttman played second fiddle, Yankel Guttman, the
bass, and Leibzeh, the cripple, the "tazin" (a type of percussion
instrument). The two Glassman brothers, Saide and Vulf, were truly virtuosos
who often traveled to America to play and become well known. Often, when
they came back to Horodenka , they gave music lessons to school children.
Saide Glassman died in New York. Isaac Klizmer from Samarkovitz also died
there.


Helen Winkler
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