Bedros Haroutunian performing Armenian music,
April 22, 1939
Comprises a group of field materials documenting Bedros Haroutunian
performing Armenian and Armeno-Turkish music on the Kamanche and
quanun on April 22, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in
Fresno, California.
Recordings:
Photographs:
Technical drawings:
General notes:Sidney Robertson Cowell refers to the Armenian instruments of qanun as the "kanoon," the kemanche as the "kemancha," and the daph, deff or def [frame drum] as the "defs."
Biographical and historical notes:
"Bedros Haroutunian is from Varta in Soviet Armenia."
For more information see:
List of performers | California Folk Music
am Jun-27-97