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Dusty beast is here!! Needs servicing by a proper technician. Lucky to live in a town with a local shop that can help. I ordered proper mallets, these pictured are for practice. Very different than...

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@nprofile1q... looks very dusty indeed! I play a few kinds of dulcimers (I own a few Ukrainian Canadian Tsymbaly and a Hungarian cimbalom) do you know anything else about the backstory of this one?

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqgglrght2pt9yt44fz2uu3jek5693fnjlkyl8c4pcewurqruafnyq5045lc ha. I was just looking at all the pictures you posted of them lately. Lol This one is all guesses by the person who gave it to me because someone gave it to him also. It has been in ver...

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don't forget my Workers Circle talk with Dave Levitt is coming up next week on June 2, I'm stoked. if you can't make that time but want to see it, still register, it's supposed to be recorded.
https://www.circle.org/events/progressive-musical

#klezmer #MusicHistory #NewYorkCity #MutualAidHistory

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I'm giving a lecture in Montreal at the end of February on one of my ongoing fascinations, the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a NYC mutual aid society for klezmer musicians and their families which had its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Venue & time info TBD!
https://klezkanada.org/year-round/yiddish-culture-jam/

#klezmer #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #MutualAidHistory

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A little klezmer music theory from Yonatan Malin...

"Here, I would like to dig a little deeper and ask questions about the tunes themselves, and especially their use of musical modes. What can we say about the klezmer modes based on this repertoire? How do the modes differ by genre or by informant?"
https://blog.klezmerarchive.org/posts/between-two-worlds-modes-in-motl-reyders-notebook-from-the-kiselgof-makonovetsky-digital-manuscript-project/

#modes #klezmer #JewishMusic #Musicology

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RIP to a legend, so many of his absurd songs have been in my head since childhood
https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/alf-clausen-simpsons-composer-dead-1236414371/

#Simpsons #composers #AlfClausen

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Dang, this brand new #klezmer album "Titunshnayder Duo", the work of Brazilian #clarinetist Alex Parke and Canadian #tsimbl player Dan Kunda Thagard, is extremely my thing. They warble and ponder their way through reinterpreting historical 78rpm recordings by the mysterious Titunshnayder.
https://alexparke.bandcamp.com/album/titunshnayder-duo

#bandcamp #JewishMusic #Yiddish #santouri #clarinet #FolkMusic

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Youtube algorithm correctly identified me as one of the few Canadians aware of exiled Indonesian composer and cellist Amir Pasaribu (1915–2010) --although I haven't searched him on there in some time--and recommended that I watch his son's playlist about him from his 99th birthday😭

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Oh😯I never used #Finale, I was on #Musescore and then #Dorico for the last few years. I guess they are winding it down and offering a Dorico discount to try and make it up to their users. I like Dorico, but I'm not sure I'd be thrilled about that.
https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-dorico-letter-from-president/

#EngravingSoftware #MusicSoftware #MusicNotation #NotationSoftware

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A gay #klezmer icon 😏 🌈
https://www.heyalma.com/the-worlds-greatest-klezmer-fiddler-is-back-with-a-burning-passion/

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Apparently a #klezmer school is being launched in #melbourne 🤔💭 interesting
#FolkMusic #JewishMusic #MusicEducation
https://www.melbourneklezmerschool.au/

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I wrote up a short blog post about the #klezmer scores I got by Isidore Moscovitz from the US Library of Congress's copyright collections.
It includes 15 klezmer dance tunes from 1920s New York which as far as I know were never recorded and aren't known in the klezmer scene.
#JewishMusic #MusicHistory #scores #MusicManuscripts #Romania
https://alte.klezmor.im/2024/05/07/15-klezmer-pieces-by-isidore-moscovitz-new-york-1925-27/

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I didn't know Frank London had cancer 😔 (We've met a few times, but don't really know each other)..
#trumpet #FuckCancer #klezmer #FolkMusic
https://roulette.org/event/frank-london-celebration/