{"id":781,"date":"2018-11-07T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/?p=781"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:13:14","slug":"paprika-air-iii-szegedi-bagpiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/paprika-air-iii-szegedi-bagpiper\/","title":{"rendered":"Paprika is in the air III: The Szegedi bagpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-779 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a-szegedi-dud\u00e1s-270x300.png\" alt=\"The Szegedi bagpiper\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a-szegedi-dud\u00e1s-270x300.png 270w, https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a-szegedi-dud\u00e1s-400x444.png 400w, https:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/a-szegedi-dud\u00e1s.png 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zsigmond M\u00f3ricz, <\/em>early-20th century writer and columnist visited Szeged in 1913. Szeged was a new and upcoming town then, just barely rebuilt after the Great Flood. He loved to sit and talk to local people, seek out what they were like, what made them Szegedi. In his prose collection called <em>Paprika is in the air we get to know Szeged the city and its people through the insights of a non-native visitor. In the previous posts we\u2019ve seen the wretched existence of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/paprika-is-in-the-air\/\">Szeged slippersmaker<\/a> and the more serene and humorous man through whose character M\u00f3ricz found the pre-Flood&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paprikamolnar.hu\/english\/paprika-air-ii\/\">Szegedi man<\/a> who was lively, positive and fun to talk to. M\u00f3ricz is deeply interested in this man and he continues to search him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The szegedi bagpiper M\u00f3ricz <\/em>meets one such man. It\u2019s cold, dreary and windy outside and people are spending the evening in their warm homes, smoking a pipe, talking about war and the city and listening to gramophones. That\u2019s not why <em>M\u00f3ricz<\/em> has come to Szeged for! He begs to meet a real szegedi bagpiper and eventually he is taken to one. Joseph is hard to convince to play his bagpipe: he is sulky and morose, deeply discontented with his daughter-in-laws and the many children in the house who all yearn for new things. <em>M\u00f3ricz<\/em> coaxes him with wine and a few good words into playing his bagpipe.&nbsp; And the wine does miracles! The bagpipe is an old szegedi one. It\u2019s made of sheepskin and in the top there is a grotesque female wooden head attached. The woman has a cold and cruel face, her eyes are Asian, her face is painted. It is bizarre and frightening. It looks like an eastern idol and <em>M\u00f3ricz<\/em> can\u2019t help but think she embodies the frightening memory of the Tatar and Mongolian past.<\/p>\n<p><em>M\u00f3ricz<\/em>is bewitched by the sound of the bagpipe and the mood it creates in the house. The children become mischievous, the women laugh and lust slowly fills the air.He envisions men and women from bygone times, who were coming a thousand years ago to conquer this new home. And, he\u2019s found what he had come here for: he understands something of those pre-Christian ancestors that had brought their beautiful spirit and blood with them from the East.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Zsigmond M\u00f3ricz, early-20th century writer and columnist visited Szeged in 1913. Szeged was a new and upcoming town then, just barely rebuilt after the Great Flood. He loved to sit and talk to local people, seek out what they were like, what made them Szegedi. 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