Dinis, Christos
ca. 1902-?piper (&c.) mentioned by name
Born and lived in Skopia (Σκοπιά Φλώρινας) [S of Florina, prov. Macedonia]; In his youth he learned to play the Gaida, but later he turned to the European clarinet, which he played in a band (according to Ahrens, in Greece usually called a groupo [γρουπο] or koumpania [κουμπάνηα (wedding band)]) in one of the local pubs. During local festivities he still used to play, occasionally, his Gaida, the bag of which he had replaced with the inner tube of a car tyre; He also made small keyless clarinets, which he called klarino [κλαρίνο].
Instrument: Gaida
Ahrens, Christian: Ein griechischer Volksmusiker und sein Instrument: zur Stimmung folkloristischer Aerophone. In: SIMP VII (Stockholm, 1981), p.95.