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music that makes a clarinet laugh, sob, and elbow you in the same breath
originYiddish folk tradition of Eastern European Jewish weddings
the laughclarinet bends notes to mimic human crying and giggling
the wordfuses Hebrew kli zemer, meaning vessel of song
comebacknearly vanished, then roared back in 1970s America
the playersklezmorim once ranked low, near beggars and thieves