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Neyzen Akag�nd�z Kutbay Encounters with a remarkable man Karl Signell
online version of an essay for Garfias once defined an ethnomusicologist as �someone who used to be a musician.� Those ethnomusicologist-musicians of us for whom one music is not enough will always owe a great debt to the worldwide fraternity of musicians who warmly embrace us as brothers and sisters. In the spring of 1970 I departed from the University of Washington for Turkey to spend two years� fieldwork there preparing to write my PhD dissertation under Garfias�s guidance. From late-1970 through mid-1972, I learned the Turkish ney reed flute in Istanbul with master musician Akag�nd�z Kutbay.
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recount below my memories of him as a tribute to Aka and as a tribute to all
the great musicians that Garfias learned from during his field work in so many
countries. Lessons | Tests | Breathy sound Ney making | Commissioning drum-making Konya | Broad tastes | Sense of humor
Brief biography of Aka last revised 21 September 2008 |
