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I am currently working on a short article on a Javanese dance
drama called Langendriya, and have read an article published in an
Indonesian newspaper, Hindia-Olanda 8 April 1893, that states that
(in translation):
'Mr. Behn, an instrument maker from Haarlem,' has fashioned an orgel
[music box?] song of 'Langendrian', etc., based on Javanese music
played at the Exposition Universelle in Paris [in 1889]. This orgel
can cry out like a person and sing, a gong and bass drum also sound.
Can any reader know provide a brief description of Behn of Haarlem?
Do any of his works survive?
Please respond off-list to me at
<M.Cohen@tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk.geentroep> [delete ".geentroep" to reply]
Thanks,
Matthew Cohen, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies
The University of Glasgow
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