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Great Fragrant Mountain (part 10 of 10)

The final part of a play recorded by Berthold Laufer in Shanghai on 18–19 November 1901 with a theatre orchestra of five or six men and four or five male singers, again on two synchronised phonographs. The theatrical genre is not documented.

Performer
Male singers and theatre orchestra, Shanghai
Instruments
Voice 聲, Mixed ensemble 合奏
Era
Late Qing
Recorded
1901
Length
2:58
Licence
Public domain · Recorded by Berthold Laufer for the American Museum of Natural History; stereo reconstruction by Patrick Feaster (griffonage.com), via Wikimedia CommonsRecorded 1901; unpublished field recording, public domain in the US (pre-1923 sound recording).
Source
Wikimedia Commons

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