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05-04-05 | 10:08 AM

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Bing

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Originally Posted by Thylacine

I'm still trying to figure out why a Japanese bike company has an eastern european sounding name....

...there is the Kalavinka, a bird of a Buddhist paradise whose voice as described in part 16 of Acts of the Buddha by Ashvaghosha as the most beautiful of all voices -- so clear and melodic. A T'ang (Chinese) dynasty opera named after it became popular in 9th-century Japan and is still performed; the role of the birds is performed by 4 little boys with wings and flowery crowns playing little cymbals intended to imitate the kalavinka's timbre.

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