Vartan Margosian was born in an Armenian village in the region of Kharpert in what was then the Ottoman Empire. He immigrated to the United States in 1908 and settled in New York City.
Margosian’s was Vartan’s record label that recorded and pressed Armenian and Turkish folk music on 78 rpm shellac records in the early 1920s.
This instrumental features a clarinet and kanon (a type of large zither) with rhythm provided by a dumback (a goblet-shaped drum).
Acoustically recorded in the New York City area circa 1923.
Released as Margosian’s No. 00.
Credits:
D. Perperian – clarinet
B. Boghosian – kanon
H. Karagosian – dumback
The flip side (Margosian No. 3) contains this same musical ensemble with Vartan Margosian on vocals.
https://youtu.be/tD5VEvcVy5U
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