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From: "Donald Marinkovich" <>
Subject: Re: Ant: [CROATIA-L]
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:58 -0500
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I could never get used to that letter E, To me that sounds plural.
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From: "Robert Jerin" <>
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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Ant: [CROATIA-L]


>
> Correct spelling is Gusle (which sounds like goosla as Joseph pointed out)
> The player of the gusle is known as guslar.
>
> Here is a wonderful link Peter Boros a Croatian who played the gusle in
> the US in the 1930s the link also has Real Player and MP3 clips which one
> can play on their PC
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/0051.html
>
> Unlike the Tamburasi who sing of village life, love etc, the guslar would
> typically play and sing a song which told a story, often times of heroic
> battles with the Turks
>
> http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=a&a=i&ID=1646
>
> Robert Jerin
> Croatian Heritage Museum
> Cleveland Ohio
>
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>
> Schkatel <> wrote:
> 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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