Re: Greek music concert in Montclair NJ

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Exactly. The spelling in the post was a bit confusing. This name for the
frame drum (also called "defi") seems to be localized to Macedonia and
Thrace, according to the Anoyianakis book on Greek folk instruments.

One way of transliterating Greek in Latin-character e-mail has "h"
representing the letter "ita" (eta). However, in this case, this word isn't
Greek to begin with in any case and is itself transliterated *in* Greek. The
alternative spellings in Greek that I've seen don't have an ita, in any
case:

ni-taf-alfa-epsilon-ro-epsilon-sighma
or
ni-taf-alfa-iota (with a diaresis over it)-ro-epsilon-sighma

Other variant names for this instrument in Macedonian and Thracian Greek
are: "dakhares" and "tagharaki."

Cheers,
Sandra

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry" <hbg (at) theworld(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Greek music concert in Montclair NJ


> Hi -
>
> Couldn't resist an unanswered question - I believe that dahares is the
> Greek word/version of the daire/doira/etc. (frame drum.)
>
[snip]
> HBG
>

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