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they say that folk music is the music of the people and different people sure approach folk music differently here in the University of California's lower Plaza. We sure have an assortment. How do you describe this style of music? It's kind of strange thing, you know, It's

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like asking how do you describe your fingernails? They're there. Mm hmm. What kind of music is this kind of music? Is this Tony, strange, strange music, folk music and a little bit everything. Mostly folk music. It's, it's weird. It's weird. Right? Mm hmm. Sam Hinton you

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have some pretty unorthodox instruments here. Could you demonstrate one of the two of them for us? I'm afraid they're all pretty darn Orthodox. There's nothing very unusual here. The jaw harp is one of the world's oldest instruments. I think people have been using this carrying in

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their pockets since long before pockets were invented. It's real, real Orthodox. That's why they call it the jew's harp. Yeah. What's this? Oh, that's a silly little nose fluid. This is the sort of thing you see advertised in the back pages of popular mechanics.

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It doesn't sound like, well, I can't say what kind of music is. This scott's traditional balladry um, songs that I didn't learn at my mother's knee mostly learn from books, but very deeply interested in them. When About 10 years ago when the folk song Revival really

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started suddenly found that they could sing them and appreciate them despite their antiquity. Ah, I'll just continue to try and finish the song. Okay, the Berkeley Folk Music Festival will continue through tomorrow. This is Ed Arnow, for eyewitness News at the University of California.