Re: yemenite instruments

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

My recollection is that the Yemenites play mostly or exclusively on found
objects, like oil drums, which I suspect they would interpret as kosher in the
way that real i "instruments" aren't.

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> So that means percussion is not an instrument (halachically- for the
> Yemenites)?
>
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> > The article I have mentions the destruction of the temple as the religious
> > reason for not allowing instrumental music and quotes several Yemenite
> Jews
> > who made this statement.  However it also says that even Muslims were not
> > permitted to play musical instruments unless they were part of the Inman's
> > military band.  People still played music secretly.  I have scanned the
> > article into pdf format if anyone wants to read it.
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> >  > 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.
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Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
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