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Makryn

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Emigration songs
Area: Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic dialect
Dance:-
Scale:C mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:3:23
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:28/04/2010
Register:Thanassis Moraitis
Comment:Greek Pontic women usually stayed with their in-laws, when their husbands were absent abroad. And they often sung sorrowful songs such as this one. The term 'makryn' is used to describe a long drawn out melody.
Storage media:Merlier (78rpm) 018 (78 rpm 018)
Artists/Instruments
Chalyvopoulos Nikolaos:Pontic lyra (Kemençe)
Chalyvopoulos Nikolaos:Singer
Photos Collection

Δίσκος 78 rpm (Μερλιέ 018/από τη συλλογή του ΜΛΑ)

Νίκος Χαλυβόπουλος, Τραπεζούντα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Νίκος Χαλυβόπουλος, Τραπεζούντα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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