vanishing crafts Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/vanishing-crafts/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 28 May 2020 08:53:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png vanishing crafts Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/vanishing-crafts/ 32 32 ‘The Last Hutsul Musical Magician’ https://forgottengalicia.com/last-hutsul-musical-magician/ https://forgottengalicia.com/last-hutsul-musical-magician/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:30:37 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1364 I bought my tsymbaly (hammered dulcimer) from the Tafiychuks—a family of musicians and instrument makers that lives in the Carpathian Mountains. Mykhailo Tafiychuk, or “the Last Hutsul Musical Magician” as Cobblestone Freeway dubbed him in this article, makes many different ancient instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, tsymbaly, and duda (Ukrainian bagpipe). […]

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