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Ceremonial (wedding) music from the Himalayas
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Ceremonial (wedding) music from the Eastern Himalayas in Nepal.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken language (principally Thulung Rai) made by anthropologist Nicholas Allen in Nepal and India between 1970 and 1981.
Recorded by Nicholas Justin Allen.
Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
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Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds