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RE:Vibraphone/xylophone/marimba in Klezmer music

I Wonder---

Maybe these instruments are an homage to the famous 19th century Gusikov's
strawFidl (bottles wrapped in straw) that Felix Mendelsohn heard on his
travels to Russia and became so enamored of.. I wonder what the strawfidl
sounded like..
Vlad Liberman

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