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Tune of St. Simon

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Religious songs
Area: Mesologi (Etoloakarnania)
Nationality:Greek
Language:-
Dance:Patinadha
Scale:-
Collector:Dietrich Wolf
Recording Place:Agios Thomas (Messologi), in the garden of a coffe house
Recording Date:13/09/1975
Recording Responsible:Dietrich Wolf
Duration:2:18
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, Instrumental
Register Information
Register date:22/05/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:The procession from Messolonghi to the little monastery of St. Simon must always have a 'zighia', an ensemble of two oboes and one or two drums.
Storage media:Orient - Okzident (LP 78)
Artists/Instruments
Saleas Yerassimos:Drum
Mitsakos Ioannis (solo):Karamouza (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))
Saleas Yorghos:Karamouza (Shawm (a conically bored, double-reed woodwind instrument))

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