Lithuanian birbyne music rehearsal at home of Balys Pakštas, Chicago, Illinois; Kazys Bartašius, weaver, Chicago, Illinois

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Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, Mr. Vincas Vaitkus (Vaitkevicius} playing the birbyne (Lithuanian folk instrument); the instrument he is playing has been imported from Lithuania, although Mr. Vaitkus has also made them himself; 2a-10, Mr. Vaitkus and Mr. Balys Pakstas; 11-13, Mr. Liubomiras Bichnevicius and Mr. Pakstas; 13a-22, Mr. Vaitkus, Mr. Pakstas, and Mr. Bichnecicius, the three men started playing together while in Norway during WWII, where they played birbynes that Mr. Vaitkus made; in America they played in dance orchestras together, but only in the last year have they picked up the birbyne, using examples from Lithuania that have been improved with an additional valve in the back for octave change; 22a-23, Mr. Kazys Bartasius, weaver, in his basement workshop; 24-36a, Mr. Bartasius telling fieldworker Elena Bradunas his life story