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Thank you for sharing this. Music is universal and its good to begin my new year by learning of yet another lovely and lively style of which I was formerly ignorant.

Happy new year

dear whistle1000
italians are good persons, they must have serenity (peacefulness?), to show their best. And make nice music.
Music, is the universal language that comes out from our souls and souls have not boundaries. So the differences become only shades of a single entity.
This is what i think.

... something new to me and I am totally enjoying listening to it! Some great music in it....now I know why I would get such a positive response from the Italian, especilly Sicilian, masons that I've worked with in the past....I've always wondered why they'd give me the thumbs up and laugh and dance ...

@whistlecollector the sardinian "tenores" are really amazing, they show one of the most ancient cultures of Italy. I love them. And what about the "LAUNEDDAS"?? Mini-hornpipes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVTImENF-Y ...

For friscalettu lovers, you absolutely have to listen to this album (on Spotify you can listen the full length tracks): http://www.amazon.com/Hybla-Carmelo-Salemi/dp/B002B4AFUS On YouTube you can also see double, triple and quadruple (!) friscalettu, this one is a triple: ...

I love it. I never cease to be amazed what terrific music can be made using the simplest of instruments. Thanks for sharing this. And sometimes no instruments at all! -- I find this canto a tenore rather pleasant sounding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2IbeGdGd0 ...

I love it. I never cease to be amazed what terrific music can be made using the simplest of instruments. Thanks for sharing this.

... http://www.prolocoterrasini.it/images/friscalettu_copia.gif In the the southern italian folk music, we can find some instruments similar ... very "mediterranean", full of sun, joy and energy. The "friscalittu" or friscaletto, frischietto, etc. has 9 holes: 7 in the ...