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Wedding tune (La musique des paysans de Grèce)

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding songs
Area: Peloponnese, Ghastouni (Ilia - Peloponnese)
Nationality:Greek
Language:-
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Dietrich Wolf
Recording Place:Gastouni (Ilia), in a gypsy camp
Recording Date:17/09/1975
Recording Responsible:Dietrich Wolf
Duration:4:11
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, Instrumental
Register Information
Register date:22/05/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:When the bride is clothed.
Storage media:La musique des paysans de Grèce (LP 80)
Artists/Instruments
Theodhoropoulos Mitsos:Davul (A large double-headed drum played with mallets.)
Theodhoropoulos Nikolaos (solo):Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))
Theodhoropoulos Christos:Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))

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