Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge" and I totally agree with that statement. Many times, though necessary, limited knowledge restricts our evolution in many ways of life and it is the imagination and its development, because of the lack aforementioned before, what makes us explore and achieve new talents and goals that could even seem impossible. The shortcomings pushes us to fight and conquer what we want and the abundance invites us to a more comfortable life but far less rewarding.
In the history of our "trikitixa" it also has been going through different eras until reaching us today and enjoying a more than promising future filled with stunning quality interpreters. But I really enjoy looking back and remembering past times where the trikitilaris, people who were mostly related to the fieldworkers and in their spare time would practice with some old triki. Searching its secrets slowly in conquering, always under the yoke of "hit-error" the function and the soul of this incredible instrument. Last week died one of those "heroes" who fought in another time, lack of schools, books, accordions of thousands of dollars but who replaced them all with enthusiasm, imagination and desire. Jose Mari Soraluze Epelde, born in 1941 in the valley of Martirieta, Azkoitia, and even though his father and grandfather were dulzaineros, Epelde chose the triki as a tool to express what he wanted. Together with his brother they performed in countless plazas and pilgrimages but always when their work in the fields permitted them and with no doubt having a proper style, as in all the eras, it was their hallmark.
The lack of a school, of a guide, made all those who learned to play on their own, had no choice but to develop a personal way of interpreting, creating a huge variety of styles, because the absence pushes to conquer and the way for the conquest always find his award.
Gurekin Beti, Agur Epelde!
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