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  • But what I really want to talk about is the CD he included in the package, A Mazeldiker Yid, by his group Di Naye Kapelye, for which he plays violin, mandolin, koboz, cumbus, flutes, and Carpathian drum:Di Naye Kapelye plays old time Jewish music the way we imagine it was played in eastern Europe both before and after the Holocaust.

    languagehat.com: KAPELYE AND KUCSMA. 2005

  • Yiannis Kapoulas plays what he calls an Ethno III, a mutant resembling a three-necked electric guitar but combining the Greek bouzouki with the Turkish cumbus saz.

    Thestar.com - Home Page John Goddard 2010

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