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The girl from Tonyia

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Laudatory songs
Area: Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic (Turkish)
Dance:Tromachton
Scale:E mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:1:55
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:23/03/2010
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:'I would be happy to die while clasping you in my arms'. Tonyia is the name of a village.
Storage media:Merlier (78rpm) 003 (78 rpm 003)
Artists/Instruments
Orphanidhis Yannis:Pontic lyra (Kemençe)
Iossifidhou Xanthipi:Singer
Photos Collection

Δίσκος 78 rpm (Μερλιέ 003/από τη συλλογή του ΜΛΑ)

Ξανθίππη Ιωσηφίδου, Τραπεζούντα - Πόντος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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