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From: Schkatel <>
Subject: Ant: [CROATIA-L]
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:54:25 +0200 (CEST)
In-Reply-To: <20050903.140848.1703.281938@webmail13.nyc.untd.com>


Hello Joseph, hello Donald.
I think also after the description from Joseph it was a Guzla. Most Guzla was smaller and had only one string.This one string is build from 30 horsehairs. But I saw an old man, who plays on a large Guzla in Bosnia before 35 years in a Serbian village, those had two strings, a wonderful instrument.
regards Juergen


"" <> schrieb:
Bee,
I am now 81 years old, but as a child in Bearcreek, MT, a small coal mining town, we lived next door to a family, who had a boarder that used to play an instrument he called (what sounded like a goosla). I had never seen it spelled, but from what he called it, that is the way I thought it was spelled. Several of us kids would go and sit on the steps and listen to him play, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not sure what nationality the Pekich family were, who had the boarder (his name was only "Black Nick", as that is all I had ever heard anyone call him). My father was Italian and my mother Belgian, and in our small coal mining town we had practically every nationality. There were Croatians, Yugoslavians, Montenegro, Scotch, Irish, French, and many more that I can't think of at this time. People of all nations, and people that got along with their neighbors, and would help a neighbor in need at any time. Sorry to ramble on, but just had to go back in time for the moment!
. When I saw the "gusle" mentioned, I thought that perhaps the instrument I used to listen to and your gusle were one and the same. As I remember, it had a rather long neck and had a rounded bottom "vessel" where the strings attached at one end and went to the near end of the neck. I don't recall how many strings it had. It was held more or less upright and played with a bow. The rounded vessel I mentioned would be the part of a banjo or guitar that hooked onto the neck. Hope I'm not getting you too confused.
At any rate, your message brought back some memories to an old man. I married a beautiful Croatian girl, and we were married for 54 years when she died in 2002.
Regards,
Joseph





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