yaffa: right. but there's a lot of similarities to romani music, the roman music of east-- like balkan music. assaf: you know, it depends on your perspective. if you tell it to a real romanian music--that it's the same, he will not agree. yaffa: right. assaf: and if you go to the old masters that play both genres-- for examplemil, whom we studied with, you realize that they play differentlyor christian, gypsy, or jewish. ffa: jewish, yeah. assaf: but, of course, it has a lot of melodic and rhythmic material that is shared. so both theews and the gypsies had a massive cultural communication network. if you look at the folk music of romanians and hungarians, right--the locals, it will be very different. not the gypsies. the village music will be very different-- different scale, different motive. when you look at the gypsy music of these places or the jewish music, you see many more similarities because the language--language and the traveling and the religious interaction gave rise to transfer of in