Re: Instrument?

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

r l reid wrote:

> I was unaware of any hurdy gyrdies in Jewish music...

But there is one in a Yiddish curse:

        S'zol dir azoy dreyen in boykh m'zol meynen, az s'iz a katerinke.
        'May you have such a spinning/twisting in your stomach that people think
it's a
         hurdy-gurdy.'

Bob Rothstein

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