Arabic musical instruments information

Arabic musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion...

determining the specific date of musical instrument invention is impossible, as the majority of early musical instruments were constructed of animal skins...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...

finger cymbals, are part of a family of musical instruments known as clappers. Clappers are musical instruments made of wood, bone, metal, and other substances...

East. The majority of musical instruments used in European medieval and classical music have roots in Arabic musical instruments that were adopted from...

The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced [ʕuːd];) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone...

parts of Europe. The instrument is typically bowed, but is sometimes plucked. It is one of the earliest known bowed instruments, named no later than the...

Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian...

Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They...

dating back to ancient Egypt, making it one of the oldest musical instruments still in use. The Arabic ney consists of a hollow cylinder with finger-holes and...

In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

Nahawand, ‘Ajam) can be performed on equal-tempered instruments such as the piano, however such instruments cannot faithfully reproduce the microtonal details...

some stringed instruments like the tavigh [hy], the pandir, the jnar [hy] and some of foreign origin, like the Iranian kamancha and the Arabic oud. Not only...

The arghul (Arabic: أرغول or يرغول), also spelled argul, arghoul, arghool, argol, or yarghul, is a musical instrument in the reed family. It has been...

and new enthusiasts of Egypt's unique percussive instrument Blades, James (1970). Percussion Instruments and Their History. New York. p. 175. Garland Encyclopedia...

July 1991. doi:10.1086/373501. ISSN 0022-2968. S2CID 162282522. Zurna Instruments of the World - Virtual encyclopedia Zurna Republic of Turkey - Ministry...

Qraqeb or garagab (Arabic: قراقب), in English often transliterated as krakeb, are a large iron castanet-like musical instrument primarily used as the rhythmic...

one to five strings. The wooden body (soundbox) membranophone of the instrument is oval-shaped and covered with the hide of cattle. The strings of the...

other prominent scholars, have debated the legitimacy and use of musical instruments. For instance, according to the Hanafi school of thought, associated...

Rizzetta) Hammered dulcimers from polish collections (Polish folk musical instruments) East Anglian Dulcimers(ongoing historic research by John & Katie...

repertory of Persian classical music known as the Radif. Similar musical instruments have been present since medieval times all over the world, including...

The instruments are beaten with short wooden sticks bent outward at the upper ends called damka. Naqqārāt is the name of kettledrums in Arabic countries...

essential instrument in the Rahbani repertoire, but it is not classified among the classical instruments of Arab or Turkish music. However, this instrument may...

"that which is being shaken", from σείειν seiein, "to shake") is a musical instrument of the percussion family, a form of rattle, used most notably by the...

derived from the Arabic term طرب tarraba. Many instruments originate in the Middle East region. Most popular of the stringed instruments is the oud, a pear-shaped...