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Re: yemenite instruments

In a message dated 5/14/2003 7:26:14 AM Central Daylight Time, 
winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:

> Someone was asking whether the use of percussion only by Yemenite Jews was 
> due to political persecution or for religious reasons.  

The Yemenites with whom I lived for a while in Israel told me that it was 
because Jews were not allowed to play musical instruments.  I never heard a 
religious reason.
Lori @ MAX

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