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| Keywords: Burmese musicians at the Shwedagon Pagoda.jpg Burmese musicians at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda Rangoon<br> Photograph of musicians at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Rangoon Yangon Burma Myanmar taken by Philip Adolphe Klier in the 1890s Burma has a vast classical music repertoire known as the Maha Gita or Great Song and a rich tradition of ensemble musical performance The musicians in this view are performing on the platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda Burma ™s most revered Buddhist shrine and site of pilgrimage The base of the main stupa can be seen behind the musicians In Burma the violin was traditionally played by blind musicians and is held upright rather than horizontally The photograph is from an album devoted almost entirely to Lord Elgin's Burma tour of November to December 1898 Victor Alexander Bruce 1849-1917 ninth Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine served as Viceroy of India between 1894 and 1899 http //ogimages bl uk/images/019/019PHO0000015S6U00060000 5BSVC2 5D jpg 1895 Klier Philip Adolphe c 1845-1911 Public domain PD-old Historical images of Myanmar Shwedagon pagoda Photographs by Philip Adolphe Klier Rangoon in the 20th century Music of Myanmar | ||||
