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HANDSOME GIRLS OF THE NEW ROMANY STRAIN |
BRETON PIPER PLAYING A SOLO |
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| They have nothing in common with gipsies of Hindu origin, being descendants of Rumanians who settled on the Pindus range, and were broken and driven into a wandering way of life. This picturesque, new Romany folk is hard-working, and families generally pick up so good a living in the mountains and valleys of Albania that few care to return to Rumania | Despite their racial affinity, the Bretons have not nearly so much musical genius as the Irish, Welsh, or Cornish people. Their music is not of good quality, and their folk melodies are poor. Their musical development may, perhaps, have been retarded by the limitations of their chief instrument, the biniou |