UN CIMPOI ȘI CÂTEVA SCRISORI
A BAGPIPE AND SEVERAL LETTERS

Summary/Abstract: Cornerevais situated in Caraș-Severin county. Known as the commune with the most villages in Romania, Cornereva was, until around 1990, a nucleus of bagpipe music. Gathered around Nicolae Nemeș-Munteanu, the “Cornereva Bagpipers” were among the last performers of the double- chanter bagpipe in the Banat region. Being, in some cases, bagpipe builders themselves, the musicians left us a series of songs, some of which were printed on a small 45 RPM disc, in the early 1970s. It was also during this period that an exchange of letters began between ethnomusicologists Tiberiu Alexandru, Gottfried Habenicht, and Nicolae Nemeș-Munteanu. Several letters remained in the bagpiper’s family archive. Their reading and analysis, today, lead to an outline of the relationship between Nemeș- Munteanu and the two ethnomusicologists, as well as to a slightly clearer picture of the life of a researcher of the Socialist Republic of Romania, during that period.

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