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We welcome questions, corrections, suggestions and stories from fellow lovers of the hundred-violin tradition. If you have spotted an error, have a source to recommend, or simply want to share the memory of a performance, we would be glad to hear from you.

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Corrections and Sources

Because this archive deals with an oral tradition, details are sometimes contested or hard to verify. If you have authoritative information that would improve these pages, please tell us and cite your source where you can. We are always happy to revise in the interest of accuracy and respect for the community whose music this is.

We are especially grateful for first-hand accounts. If you have attended a performance by a large Gypsy orchestra, played in a Romani or Hungarian ensemble yourself, or grew up around this music, your recollections are exactly the kind of knowledge that written histories tend to miss. A remembered detail about how a particular csárdás was phrased, or how a cimbalom player shaped a solo, is worth more to this archive than any encyclopaedia entry.

What We Cannot Help With

Please understand the limits of what an independent archive can do. We are not a booking agency, a ticket seller, a record label or a fan club. We cannot tell you when a specific orchestra will next perform in your city, sell you a recording, or forward a message to a musician or ensemble. For any of those, please contact the relevant orchestra or venue through its own official channels.

What we can do is help you understand and enjoy the music more deeply. If your question is about the history, the instruments, the repertoire or the tradition, ask away — that is exactly what we are here for, and answering it is a pleasure.

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Prefer to keep reading? Return to the archive home, learn more about this project, or begin with the story of the hundred-violin tradition. However you found your way here, thank you for caring about this remarkable and too-little-documented corner of the musical world.