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Egin chavasi - A lament from Pontus (Folk Music of Greece)

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Instrumental
Area: Pontos
Nationality:Greek
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Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Notopoulos Iakovos
Recording Place:Thessaloniki
Recording Responsible:Notopoulos Iakovos
Duration:3:11
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, Instrumental
Register Information
Register date:14/04/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:The word 'egkin' means steppes, from which comes 'Egklinades', the men of the steppes.
Storage media:Folk Music of Greece (LP 74)
Artists/Instruments
Anonymous (solo):Pontic lyra (Kemençe)

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