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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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the best Saxon brass band. Besides him, founding members were: Gyurka István, Kapitány Sándor, Buda
András, Vajda Péter, Pap István, Girás János, Kiss Istók István, Bálint Bandi, Peltán István, Gyulai János,
Tóth István, Péter János. He learned the secrets of musical instruments and music playing from
Klitschka. As a tailor, he made uniforms for his band. He taught his musicians to read and write music
sheets, he started a serious education of the people. The blowers of Barcaság are his students. He
gathered the young ones from Hétfalu, taught them to intelligent fun. The authorities deported him in
1951 to the Danube Canal. In the mean time, his innocence came to light, and he was able to return after
one year. He continued where he had left off, with the only difference that he had to play on the
communist holidays, and not only on Hungarian ones. Between 1958 and 1960 he manoeuvred a jazz
band too. His band was the highlight of the Szabó Hall, the Papp beer garden, the picnics, the Fire
Department’s ball. Every member of the Hétfalu community sang together with them on the Fire
Department’s march, which was composed by Gyulai Nagy András for the lyrics of Köpe István. They
bought the instruments with their own money; sometimes Köpe István gave them financial assistance.
The instruments were repaired by Kubath Wilhelm in his shop from Brasov. Veres Jenő (1910-1988), a
true entertainer and the world’s unique “official smuggler” introduced them many times. Half of
Barcaság’s people still get their heat from the Dutch stoves he built for them. For him building a stove
was a small celebration, he told stories, gave books to the family. He considered the Hungarian-speaking
natives from Moldavia to be his heirs, and he quoted Berzsenyi Dániel to say goodbye to them:
“I confront bravely the darkness of my grave, It is frim, but it can not be that evil. Because it is your
work, it spread there, too, Your hands cover my bones.” The followers of Gyulai Nagy András were
forced by the government to have the winder band function in the pioneer house. The activities did not
last long; the director of the pioneer house gave most of the instruments to Saguna Highschool. This was
the end of the most famous brass band. Tamás András continued to lead for many years the brass band
from Csernát village. In 1945, in Hosszúfalu Fabich Károly reorganizes the fire-fighter’s winder band.
The most important bandmasters were Laczkó Márton and Pari János. In 1920 the Evangelical Winder
Band is created in Tatrang with the help of minister Szórádi Lajos, chorister Zsigmond István and choir
leader Pajor Árpád. In the city of Brasov existed the nab called 89 Tüzérezred. The brass band from
Tatrang used to buy their instruments from that band. Most of these archaical instruments can also be
found today. The interesting thing about these instruments was that all the other instruments from
Barcaság were B tuned but those from Tatrang were H tuned. In 1946 a parallel fire-fighter band is
created with the help of the Csere, Váncsa, Bálint, Csabai, Pajor, Koszta and Veres families. They bought
their instruments from Szászhermány. The generation change of the two bands ended up with
combining the two. The most important choir leaders of the band from Tatrang were: Pajor Árpád, Bálint
György, Koszta István, Csere István, Szász János and Csórik István. Beside religious events they also
attended outdoor concerts. In 1982 on the Festival “We Sing for you Romania” they received the second
prize. In 1925 the villages of Zajzon and Pürkerec created together the Baptist Winder Band. Founder
members: Máthé Géza, Rab Sámuel, Szász Sámuel, Sipos András, Koródi Sándor, Rab Márton, Fejér
István, and Simon Mihály. They bought their instruments from the Firefighter’s Band from Tatrang. The
diminution of the Baptist congregation broke up the band, so with buying the instruments from them, in
1979 the Evangelical Winder Band is founded, its members being Deák István, Bálint István, Sipos Tibor,
Bódi Gábor, Vajda István, Fejér István. The congregations of Bodola, Keresztvár, Oltszakadát used to
invite them for different events. In 1985 Precizia Factory also creates a winder band, its choir leader
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