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The author reconstructed three phases in the life of a folk musician in Polish musical fairy-tales, namely his youth, maturity with a magic initiation, and old age which is filled with wandering and sharing knowledge and mastery with other people. In his youth, playing a pipe or a fiddle was a vocation. The musician is sensitive to sounds of nature, and his play evokes both admiration and disregard...