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Description: Post card of a traditional Chamber music from Aleppo, at the turn of the 20th. century, complete with Champagne bottles for the pleasure of the highly esteemed musicians. " The chamber music consists of voices accompanied with a dulcimer [ Kanoon ], a guitar [Tanboor], the Arab fiddle [Kamangi], two small drums [ Nakara], the dervish flute [ Nai], and the diff. These compose no disagreeable concert, when once the ear has been some what accustomed to the music; the instruments generally are well in tune, and the performers , keep excellent time". DR. ALEX RUSSELL,M.D. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ALEPPO 1794
Title: Aleppo-Music0Band
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