Ethnographic wax cylinders

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• Adud leluti B

  Adud leluti B: Torres Strait Expedition, Cylinder A7. Charles Myers' notation: 'Song IVA: Malu'. Transcription on cylinder insert notes (now no longer available): 'Adud leluti / B Ulai / (Malu kupa isauado neukarik leluti a) / Bo: Bu: / Wau goi wakoi...

• Shahnai duet, Punjab, Pakistan

  Shahnai duet, Punjab, Pakistan: Fox Strangways No.35. Panjabi ghazal (Cheshami Khumara). Twoshahnais in unison and dhol, dhamar tal. Havildar Rashu and Naik Nawab(sh) and Sipahi Miranbakhsh (dh). Transcribed in MOH (ex333, p237-8). Arthur Fox...

• There is an ale house [Died for Love]

  There is an ale house [Died for Love]: EFDSS Cylinder No.56. 1. There is an ale house [Died for love], sung by unknown male vocal soloist. 2. Hornpipes, possibly performed by John Locke (fiddle). Reasonable quality recording but with some surface noise...

• Yam II

  Yam II: Torres Strait Cylinder '77 T.S.' 1. Announcement: "Yamaz Sibarud, sung by Maino of Yam." 2. Unaccompanied male vocal solo. No further information available. The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait in 1898 was led by...

• All Among the New Mown Hay

  All Among the New Mown Hay: EFDSS Cylinder No.22. "All among the new mown hay", sung probably by Alfred Edghill. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) Collection divides into three sub-collections of Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and English...