From: Ellen K. 

I think the last ones died in the early 1900's.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:38:36 -0700, Alan Cairns
 wrote in message
:

>On 22/10/03 10:00 AM, in article 4jddpvsei7cu3noo0c2kr2cvaavnelf15p{at}4ax.com,
>"Ellen K."  wrote:
>
>> Check out music sites, you can purchase
>> recordings of castrati.
>
>Can you really? I thought the practice had died out 200 years ago. I would
>just love to have heard Farinelli.
>
>Alan

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