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“From Shabbat until Wednesday... each evening there came music, and for the bride ‘guten Abend,’ a ‘dobri wetscher’ played, and every morning we heard the ‘guten-Morgen-Standchen,’ ‘dobri dsen,’ and we danced happy little dances.” [Brest Litovsk, Poland, 1848]. Wengeroff 1913, I, pp. 182-83.
“The day of the wedding the klezmer had to arrive early in the morning to play a gut-morgn for the parents of the bride and groom.” [Vilna, c. 1870s-1880s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874.
See Dobridzien.