"Nie ma muzyki bez kozła"

"Without a Kozioł there is no music"; An expression of the elder generations, who didn’t dance if there was no bagpipe in the local band; After World War I the bagpipe was often replaced, in larger ensembles, by a clarinet or trumpet (remnants of military bands), but Sobieski describes the musical practice in villages, which is "arranged in such a way that 2 groups are invited for weddings and parties: an "old" one, made up of a Kozioł, violin, clarinet and trumpet, and a "fashionable" one that includes an accordion, saxophone and trumpet"; He even mentions "a band in Zbąszyń, formed by a father and 3 sons who, having received an invitation to play at a wedding or party, take a double set of instruments and play [either] a Kozioł, violin, clarinet, and trumpet, or an accordion, saxophone, clarinet, and trumpet. These players […] never would go and play without a Kozioł, because people demand one, and young people know how to dance evenly with the old "po koźle" and sing old songs".