Tapa, Estonia
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| County | Lääne-Viru County | ||||
| Mayor | Kuno Rooba | ||||
| Area | 17.36 km² | ||||
| Population (as of 2004) - Density |
6,607 380.6/km² |
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| Coordinates | 59°16' N 25°57' E | ||||
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Tapa is a town in Lääne Viru County, Estonia. It is located at the junction of the country's Tallinn-Narva (east-west) and Tallinn-Tartu (north-south) railroad lines, making it an important centre of transit for freight (mainly Russian oil and timber) as well as rail passengers. With the former Tapa air base, and, today, the Tapa Central Training Center (Estonian: Tapa Väljaõppekeskus) on the edge of town, Tapa continues to be an important centre for training young men and women in Estonian defence forces.
In October 2005, Lehtse municipality and Saksi municipality merged with Tapa to form Tapa Vald.
Like many Estonian towns, Tapa has a music school, which is second only to the local elementary and high school (or gymnasium) in educating children and preparing them for successful lives as teenagers and young adults. On March 17, 2007, Tapa Music School (Estonian: Tapa Muusikakool) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a concert by its students and its graduates. The music school opened in the fall of 1957. Peeter Kald has been the school's director since 1979.
Jüri Tüli is one of the school's accomplished teachers and the conductor of the Tapa Brass Band. All the time - from his childhood to his teen years to his adult life - Tüli has played music, taught music, and taught himself more about music. He was born in Tapa on October 1, 1949. He remembers that he began playing a clarinet, which his uncle had given him, on a spring day in May 1959. He was nine years old. He graduated from Tapa Music School in 1966 and from Tapa I Secondary School a year later. He joined the Tapa Fire Brigade Brass Band in 1975, and in the same year, he started conducting the Tapa Brass Band. He became an instructor in wind instruments at the music school in 1981 and has taught there now for more than 25 years.
Liina Saia has taken clarinet lessons from Tüli for more than seven years and has been in the Tapa Brass Band for more than three. In a report she wrote for a ninth-grade English class, Saia said that Tüli is a very kind, warm-hearted, and very good teacher as well as a very good, smart, and experienced conductor. He knows very many Estonina conductors, and the Tapa Brass Band is well-known throughout Estonia.
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- In the Estonian language, "Tapa" is also the imperative of "kill". This has lead to an urban legend stating that during Soviet times the town had a newspaper called "Tapa Kommunist", which could mean either "Communist of Tapa", or "kill the communist". Later the name was changed to "Tapa Edasi", which could mean either "Tapa Forward", or "Keep killing".
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Municipalities of Lääne-Viru County
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