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		dwohnitmok on Aug 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn ... Seikilos Epitaph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

anotheryou on Aug 29, 2022 [–]

but still no tempo, right? listening to the sung sample¹ I could totally imagine it being double as fast and walzing a bit more.

I actually really like it played at double tempo, my firefox can do it on right click.

¹ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/%CE%9F_%...

dwohnitmok on Aug 29, 2022 | [–]

No there is no tempo given.

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