Daniel Hoffman - Double-String Violin Doina (klezmer fiddle)

From the December 8, 2011 concert at the Inbal Theater in Tel Aviv. This is the doina section from Zapfenstreich, originally recorded by Art Shryer's Yiddish Orchestra in 1928 in New York. Also released by the San Francisco Klezmer Experience on their Zing! CD.
Known in Yiddish as "di tsvey shtrunes" and in Turkish as "çiftitelli" there are only a few old recordings of this style in Yiddish music. This is a good example of the influence of the music of the Ottoman Empire on Eastern European Jewish music.
The violin is a normal violin, but the middle strings are switched, and moved closer to the outer strings, and in this recording, tuned in octaves of G and D. The word Çiftetelli (Turkish for double-string) eventually became better known as a type of slow rhythm used in Middle-Eastern music.
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Daniel Hoffman with Gilad Ephrat - contrabass, Boris Martzinovsky - accordion, and Yair Salzman - drums

[@xxkq0]

How does he make that violin cry so beautifully?

[@moncysho]

Daniel I'm still waiting for a CD of these performances in Tel Aviv.

[@TheSecretmuseum]

Brilliant! thanx

[@torjimon]

Jews can make cry anyone!

[@rustyshackleford5553]

Even a fiddle!

[@adrianciobanu5856]

This is Romanian folclor with same oriental pepe

[@torjimon]

@@adrianciobanu5856 ... Klezmer fiddle is a jewish tradition, as far as I know.

[@curvingfyre6810]

Might fuck around and carve a rebec tuned like this out of a length of barely aged sapling, so that the instrument dries and settles all at the same time while under tension and matures while being played to acclimate to the vibrations of music, then absolutely rock out with it, and facemelt, ocmpletely defying the genre people will think when they first see something so clearly cut from a piece of raw living wood, and embellished with twigs and branches set into the instrument, and patterned with ogham script in the closest surviving linguistic relative.

[@권순재-q4m]

what are all strings name?

[@pkskyutube]

How do you string and tune a double-string violin? I can't seem to find any information anywhere.

[@DanielHoffmanViolinist]

+Paul Pikowsky hey Paul- there are a few ways to do it, but I lower the A string down to a G and put it next to the low G string. Then I lower the E to a D and put it next to the low D string. Then you have G in octaves and D in Octaves. You need to cut new grooves in your bridge and nut for the new placement of the strings. Hope that helps

[@pkskyutube]

+Daniel Hoffman Great! Sort of like a two string mandolin. Thanks.

[@vladodobleja2212]

Daniel Hoffman Are you from Romania or how comes that you know so much about our folklore and traditions?