Sold Date: June 8, 2021
Start Date: June 7, 2021
Final Price: $82.00 (USD)
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The rare ARDYAL 78 rpm record label featuring Romanian music is here sung by IONESCU-ARDEAL with accompaniment on violin ALEXANDRU FODOR and  VICTORIA HANZIE on cimbalom, recorded in Chicago in 1927 on Ardyal 6A/B, a 78 rpm 10" original in V/V+ condition-- please see photos 
Fodor was presumably the laborer at Inland Steel Company who lived in East Chicago in 1918 and 1930 and was born in 1882 in Romania. Victoria Hanzi (1902-1949) was the daughter of Salamon Hanzi (1878-1938), a lautar from Transylvania who played violin and cimbalom. She married Steve Fodor (1896-1956), presumably related to Alexandru. They lived in the East Chicago-Hammond area of the Calumet region in Indiana and may have provided the music at a Romanian ball held above a saloon on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago that Irving Brown describes in Gypsy Fires in America (1924). Ionescu-Ardeal was a singer and actor who performed for the Romanian communities in America. It was unusual in Europe for women to be instrumentalists, but in America the need for musician fathers to increase income led them to encourage their daughters to play. The Hungarian-Jewish musician Benjamin Amsterdam (b. 1862), of Chicago, included his cimbalom-playing daughter Fanny, and, in Cleveland, more famously, the Gypsy violinist Andrew Miko's daughter Verona (1887-1937) played, later making a name for herself in vaudeville as "Gypsy Countess Verona.
This record will be securely packed in a new 12x12x4 box sandwiched between cardboard stiffeners and floating in a paper fill.

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