Re: [HG] My page about Asturias and Galicia

[Arle Lommel]

There are some reasons why you don't hear it: the chien is not part  
of the traditional zanfona at all. It was added fairly recently by  
some makers, but it plays no role in historicizing traditions. I am  
deliberately not making any statement about authenticity, because  
what counts as authentic is an inherently political question and  
invokes some really problematic issues in general. So let's simply  
say that those strains of Galician music that look to the past and  
try to (more or less accurately) recreate something from that past  
generally eschew the chien.

Best,
Arle



On Aug 25, 2007, at 6:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I noticed that, by and large, there is little use of the chien in  
Spanish playing.  Have you-all noticed that, too?