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• asd123321 ✭✭✭✭

  October 2006 Posts: 121

  It would be good if you told us about cymbalom style accompaniment.
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2006 Posts: 6,153

  I've got one example in the Gypsy picking book of a cymbalom type of idea. Have you tried that?
• capilano-gypsy New

  October 2006 Posts: 145

  Yeah. I want to learn some new cymbalom licks.
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2006 Posts: 6,153

  Boulou and Elios Ferre are the masters of that. Check out these CDs:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Below I atatched a recording of Nello Mirando playing the Rom tune [i]Iboya[/i]. It's one of the most cymbalom-esque peices I've heard. The Mirando family is the [i]other[/i] big Gypsy music family in The Netherlands. They mostly play Hungarian stuff...not much Gypsy Jazz.
  
  You should also check out Angelo Debarre's solo piece [i]Vieux Tzigane[/i]. Also very cymbalom like.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• capilano-gypsy New

  October 2006 Posts: 145

  Thanks a lot Michael!
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  November 2006 Posts: 6,153

  Check this Boulou cut out:
• capilano-gypsy New

  November 2006 Posts: 145

  Wow... :shock:
  
  I'm absolutely floored by Boulou's playing, every time. I didn't know he was capable of playing the folky stuff. I guess being in the jazz world makes me forget that a lot of the gypsy jazz players can probably play this stuff.
  
  On which record can I find more of this type of stuff from Boulou?
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  November 2006 Posts: 6,153

  He does a lot of Hungarian/Romanian type of stuff on the early CDs:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Elliot Madison, WisconsinNew

  November 2006 Posts: 551

  capilano-gypsy wrote:

  Wow... :shock:
  
  I'm absolutely floored by Boulou's playing, every time. I didn't know he was capable of playing the folky stuff. I guess being in the jazz world makes me forget that a lot of the gypsy jazz players can probably play this stuff.
  
  On which record can I find more of this type of stuff from Boulou?

  
  Buy the Matelot CD first. This is almost a postmodern pastiche compared to it.
• Ken Bloom Pilot Mountain, North CarolinaNew

  November 2006 Posts: 164

  As far as learning what cimbalom plalyers do for backup, why not listen to cimbalom players? There are some very standard motifs that they use which are very playable on guitar and fairly easy to pickup. Most of these involve arpeggios and using an uppernote as a pedal. If you want to hear some really spectacular cimbalom playing find some recordings of Toni Iordache. He is one of Romania's finest. As PS, you certainly can't go wrong listening to the Matelot Ferret CD. The cimbalom playing is not typical but the blend of the cimbalom and Matelot's gorgeous guitar playing makes it a unique and standout musical offering.
  
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