Rodamanthos
Androulakis
I
used snail shells to construct mouth-lyres
I
touched the lyre very young, but even younger I was constructing
“mouth-lyras” out of snail shells, and played all the known songs
of the period, in parties we had with other guys and girls of the
village. Once, at a “panigiri” some fellow villager proposed:
"give the lyre to this “kopelli” (young guy) to play a “kontilia”!
I did so and when the “meraklides” heard me they liked my playing
so much that they lifted me up, on my chair, and started processing me
around the village streets...
Full
text (in Greek)
of
the authentic narrations
of the Great Masters of Cretan music in STIGMES magazine no 68
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