{"id":315,"date":"2018-09-26T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/?post_type=archiwum&p=315"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:03:05","slug":"muzeum-tatrzanskie-w-zakopanem","status":"publish","type":"archiwum","link":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/archiwum\/muzeum-tatrzanskie-w-zakopanem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatra Museum in Zakopane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Muzeum Tatrza\u0144skie im. Dra Tytusa Cha\u0142ubi\u0144skiego w Zakopanem,
Krup\u00f3wki 10, 34-500 Zakopane<\/sub>
www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl<\/a><\/sup>
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Dr Tytus Cha\u0142ubi\u0144ski\u2019s Tatra Museum in Zakopane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatra Museum\u2019s tape collection is a particularly important part of a polish enthography\u2019s history as it contains very rare phonogram recordings of traditional music made in Podhale and Ma\u0142opolska right before the start of world war II. Juliusz Zborowski\u2019s recordings saved on Edison wax cylinders in 1914, are the oldest items in the collection \u2013 very first in the Polish Phonographic Archive. The idea of this european-wide institution was born before the war. Zborowski, yet to become the Museum\u2019s long-standing director, settled down in Podhale in 1913; he worked as a middle school teacher in Nowy Targ, simultanously studying the dialect and the material culture of Highlanders. He bought phonograph and cylinders in a German warehouse in northern Czech Republic with his own money and on instalments. \u201eAnd so the phonograph began collecting highlander melodies, which the cylinders have been soon full of, on the frontline there has been the best of the best, God\u2019s talent of the Podhale\u2019s music, Bartu\u015b Obrochta\u201d –  that\u2019s how Zborowski remembered the first recording works. In 2009, dr Jacek Jackowski\u2019s preliminary research in Museum resulted in finding Zborowski\u2019s carriers. The first attempt to read the carriers had been a success which led to the colletion\u2019s full digitilization in 2015 and publishing it as a CD. The collection consists of 48 wax cylinders, but we are not positive whether or not we have all the Zborowski\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documenting the Podhale dialect in order for later research was Zborowski\u2019s main focus, but he also documented instrumental music, because of the large amount of empty tapes he had. He recorded the famous and favourite primist Bart\u0142omiej Obrochta from Ko\u015bcielisko or Stanis\u0142aw Budza-Mroza from Poronin playing pipes and bagpipe (unfortunately, those recordings are unreadable). Zborowski has also recorded anonymous students of the secondary school in Nowy Targ singing. Although they were attending the school in town, they were fairly familiar with the local traditions as they were coming from the nearby villages. Zborowski has been looking for other performers among the people that had came to town for the market and he would have invited them to his flat in order to record them. That being said, in the collection there is a variety of materials, different repertoire and styles of performing. The work was halted when the war started. Some of it was transcribed by Alfred Chybi\u0144ski in year 1920. Zborowski knew the songs perfectly, therefore there is a possibility that he recorded his own voice on one of the cylinders.The documentation of Tatra Museum within the Polish traditional music \u2013 phonographic heritage <\/em>project has been digitalized and developed by Franz Lechleitner and Jacek Jackowski. The recordings have been published as a CD album \u201cAnd so the phonograph began collecting highlander melodies \u2026\u201c The first recordings of the traditional music of Podhale form the Tatra Museum\u2019s and the PAN Institute of Art\u2019s collections , played after over a hundred years<\/em> and as a part of The Oldest Sound Documents of Polish Traditional Music.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n