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The bride's song (Meliki Imathia / Greek Folk Music - Wedding songs Vol. 3)

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding songs
Area: Meliki (Imathia - Macedonia), Macedonia
Nationality:Greek
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Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
Recording Place:Meliki, Imathia
Recording Date:01/01/1977
Recording Responsible:Sygletos Yannis
Duration:2:46
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, Instrumental
Register Information
Register date:29/09/1994
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:Played as the bride bows three times before the guests assembled at her home and as she is led to church for the wedding ceremony.
Storage media:Greek Folk Music - Wedding songs (Vol. 3) (LP 33)
Artists/Instruments
Arabatzis S. Dhimitrios:Davul (A large double-headed drum played with mallets.)
Zafiriou Th. Yeorghios (solo):Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))
Patmos Ch. Thomas:Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))

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