Realgrumpytyke

By Realgrumpytyke

Panpipes - naiuri

Prompted by chrissel's recent blip of a Bolivian pan pipe player in Germany, I thought I'd blip the two Romanian naiuri (plural of nai, the Romanian name for the panpipes) we have at home. The fancy pale one is a type made for tourists, though it plays well; the one in the foreground is a musician's nai, as widely used in Romanian musica populara (literally 'popular music' - see below - though certainly not 'pop') and even classical music.
Not only a picture, but a link to some music populara played by one of the foremost Romanian exponents, Radu Nechifor:
http://music.radunechifor.com/
The pieces are:
Doina - a type of song of longing, melancholy
Jieneasca si sarba - a dance from the town of Jina, at the start of the trans-Alpine highway in Sibiu county - we were there last summer and should be this year too - and a fast dance (sarba).
Sarbe muntenesti (fast dances from Muntenea)
Brau si joc de doi ('Belt' and dance for two)
Hora staccato (Dance in a ring 'staccato')
If you're in London, Radu is playing a free recital at St. Martin-in-the-fields at lunchtime on 1st April.
Radu, a student of Gheorghe Zamfir, not only plays the panpipes, he makes them too in his workshop in Cisnadie, a few km south of the beautiful city of Sibiu, where we should be staying for a while this coming summer (in fact in the nearby small town of Saliste).
 

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