Kham Hom

In September 1900, Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) recorded this performance of a theatre group from Bangkok in Berlin on a phonograph cylinder which is still preserved in the Phonogramm-Archiv Berlin. In 1963, the Phonogramm-Archiv, which was founded in 1904, has become part of the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Ethnological Museum which belongs to the National Museums in Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Photograph: Edison Goldguß-Walze, colour photograph, 2005, photographer: Norman Bruderhofer; source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Music: Kham Hom (Sweet Words), performed by a theatre ensemble from Bangkok, cylinder recording by Carl Stumpf (1848–1936), Berlin, 1900; source: Department of Ethnomusicology, media technology, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Kham_Hom_-_Sweet_Words.ogg.