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CATALOG #17400

Bien Faire (mazurka)

Recording courtesy of UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

Transcript

Bien faire, Majurka, exécuté par les solistes de la garde républicaine. Record illison. to the memory of the people who lost their lives fighting for their freedom to the people who lost their lives fighting for their freedom to the memory of the people who lost their lives fighting for their freedom

Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.

french box, kinda boring tho
Format
2-Min Wax Cylinder
Release year
1905
Duration
2:16

Audio public domain, courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Transcript CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse, including commercially, with credit.

Storage location
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About the artist

Garde Républicaine
at the St Louis World's Fair, 1904
Public domain

Garde Républicaine band founded 1848

The band of the Garde Républicaine, the French gendarmerie regiment that provides ceremonial guard in Paris. Its wind band was among the most admired in Europe and recorded extensively from the earliest days of the industry; it toured to the St Louis World's Fair in 1904.

Written from Wikipedia. Corrections welcome.