Re: yemenite instruments

[MaxwellSt]

In a message dated 5/14/2003 7:26:14 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone was asking whether the use of percussion only by Yemenite Jews was due to political persecution or for religious reasons.  The Yemenites with whom I lived for a while in Israel told me that it was because Jews were not allowed to play musical instruments.  I never heard a religious reason. Lori @ MAX