The group TAKT ("Bar", as in a bar of music) was active in Kraków from 1977 for almost eight years. It was made up mostly of musicians who had started playing in 1965 in the bands Nie to Co My   and  Rytmy. It played mainly at private events. For some time it was under the patronage of the Kraków Cable Works - KABEL. It also took part in bigger performances, for example at the great festival of the highlanders of Zaolzie - then still in Czechoslovakia - in Jabłonków (photo 5).

     The covers performed by the band (in those days called "numbers" or "pieces") were exceptionally carefully arranged and played. The musicians often wrote their own lyrics to Western songs. The group was very highly rated by its listeners. Several performances were recorded, but unfortunately the tapes have been lost. Each member of the band played at least two instruments, and all of them sang - and very much in tune.

material: Wojciech Stępniowski - September 2006, Kraków