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The Bughici
Family
Market in Negrin |
 A Stroh Fiddler at
the Negrin Market.
The Stroh violin (trumpet fiddle) is one
of the more bizzare instruments found in Romania, and the annual autumn market
in Negrin is a great place to see it played. Found primarily in the Bihor
region near the western border, the instrument resembles an electric violin
with a gramophone trumpet attached to the bridge. Typical back-up ensemble is
bracs (three-stringed viola), bass and drum. The market usually happens in
second week of October, and peasants and Gypsies gather from the entire region
to buy and sell everything from Turkish track suits to copper 'tuica'
(plum brandy) smelters, 'antiques', and all kinds of assorted junk. Our annual
pilgrimage to the market is a chance to eat 'mici' - delicious little goat/lamb
sausages, listen to great music, and sample the year's vintage of palinka.
The Bughici Family
Gravestone Along with the Segal
family, the Bughici family was one of the premier Klezmer families of Iasi.
Various Bughicis performed in Goldfaden's Yiddish Theater orchestra as well as
for countless weddings in the Iasi region. Di Naye Kapelye performs some of the
Bughici family repertoire, such as the Hangu and Freylekhs from Podoloy.
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