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Tune Selanik (of the Dervishes)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Instrumental
Area: Macedonia
Nationality:Greek
Language:-
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Melikis Yorghis
Recording Place:Thessaloniki
Duration:4:32
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, Instrumental
Register Information
Register date:26/01/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:This melody may very well have been connected to the dance of the Dervishes.
Storage media:Folk musicians & singers sing of Thessaloniki 1668 - 1917 (LP 65)
Artists/Instruments
Zafiriou Th. Yeorghios:Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))
Panayotopoulos Yeorghios:Davul (A large double-headed drum played with mallets.)
Patmos Makis:Zurna (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))

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