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Ballos from Smyrna
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Σμυρναίικος μπάλος

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Information

  • Region: Asia Minor
  • Area: Smyrna
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Rhythm: 2 beats
  • Dance style: Ballos
  • Duration: 03:33

Collaborators

  • Flute: Aristides Vassilaris
  • Violin: Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis
  • Kanun: Nikos Stefanidis
  • Lute: Stavros Adrianos
  • Goblet drum: Mathios Balabanis

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  • Souravli - Greek Flutes and Pipes

Notes

A tune from Smyrna (Asia Minor) based on the rhythm of a gay, lilting, couple dance in 2/4 meter, the well known ballos, which is particularly popular in the islands, it begins with a slow introduction for kanun (kanonaki) solo.

The kanonaki is a direct descendant of the Byzantine psaltery (psalterion) and the distant forerunner of the western spinets and harpsichords. It consists of a flat box in the shape of a trapezoid strung with enough strings to produce three octaves plus three notes.

It is also capable of playing a great variety of microtones· its tuning can be adapted to a rich variety of oriental modes and can follow modal changes within the same piece, its strings are made of cat-gut or nylon and are plucked with plectrums attached to the index fingers of the performer. Markos Ph. Dragoumis (1974)

Recording information

Studio recording, 1974.

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