Dances recorded for Schwyzer zither
The zither was often played at the Büölacher home in Rickenbach in the past. Thanks to Rosmarie Tüzün, the traditional music lives on.
Rosmarie Tüzün-Gamma from Oftringen is the fourth generation to play the traditional Schwyz zither with great passion. Her mother was Rosa Gamma-Gwerder, a very good zither player who grew up on the Büölacher farm in Rickenbach/Schwyz. Even after her marriage to Schattdorf, the "Büölacher-Rösli" used to make music at home with relatives and friends. Ten years after her death, her daughter Rosmarie was given all of her cassette tapes. "The music touched me so much that I got my mother's old Schwyz zither out of the cupboard for the first time in 30 years," she says. She immediately had the instrument overhauled by zither maker Herbert Greuter in Schwyz and found an understanding teacher in Luise Betschart, Illgau.
Melchior Ulrich, Schwyz, noted 25 dances from the cassettes: "The live recordings were all made in Rosmarie Tüzün's parents' house in Schattdorf as relatives and friends played music together. Conversations and laughter often drowned out the main voice of the zither, which had to be guessed in places." Now the pieces are in the "dancey" Büölach style, lively and infectious, under the title Büölach Schwyzer zither dance available as a music book.
It is available at
Tel. 078 697 07 31 or rosmariegamma@gmail.com.
