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The pretty bride

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding / Bridal songs
Area: Kars (Caucasos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic dialect
Dance:-
Scale:D mode (chromatic)
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:1:04
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:20/04/2010
Register:Thanassis Moraitis
Comment:A song sung by the groom's friends as they walk to the bride's house. It is there that the guests from both sides meet and the wedding procession sets off the church.
Storage media:Merlier (78rpm) 012 (78 rpm 012)
Artists/Instruments
Charalambidhis Yannis:Pontic lyra (Kemençe)
Charalambidhis Yannis:Singer
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Δίσκος 78 rpm (Μερλιέ 012/από τη συλλογή του ΜΛΑ)

Γιάννης Χαραλαμπίδης, Ταχταγρά - Καύκασος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Γιάννης Χαραλαμπίδης, Ταχταγρά - Καύκασος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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