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Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories, namely classical, western and folk. Most of Iranian musical instruments are populared in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East ,Caucasus, Central Asia and Southern Asia. In ancient era Silk road had an effective role in this distribution. The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau and beyond. ...
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String instruments A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...
Woodwind instruments: side view of the gaychak front view of the gaychak The ghaychak is a stringed musical instrument from Iran. ...
The kamancheh or kamÄnche (کمانچه - violinette) is a Persian instrument similar to a violin. ...
// History The barbat is an ancient instrument of Persian origin, refined during the Arab age into the current form of oud. ...
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The dutar (Also dotar or doutar) is a traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Central Asia. ...
The qanún is a musical string instrument used in Middle-Eastern music. ...
The saz is a Turkish plucked stringed instrument, a member of the long-necked lute family. ...
Setar Setar Azerbaijani The setar is an Iranian musical instrument and means three strings in Persian. ...
Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is probably the best-known Indian instrument in the West. ...
Tanbur is the name used to refer to a long necked stringed instruments used in Turkish music. ...
Iranian Tar Woman playing the tar in a painting from the Hasht-Behesht Palace in Isfahan Iran, 1669 Iranian Tar The tar is a long-necked, waisted lute found in Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and other areas near the Caucasus region. ...
Front and rear views of an oud. ...
Santur Woman playing the santur in a painting from the Hasht-Behesht Palace in Isfahan Iran, 1669 The santur (سَنتور) is a hammered dulcimer of Iran. ...
A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ...
- Exposed: Mizmar • Shahnai • Sornai
Percussion instruments: In Arabic music, a mizmar is any single or double reed wind instrument. ...
Woman playing the ney in a painting from the Hasht-Behesht Palace in Isfahan Iran, 1669 The ney (also nai, nye, nay) is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music--in some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. ...
A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ...
A Persian woman playing a frame drum, from a painting on the walls of Chehel-sotoon palace, Isfahan, 17th century, Iran. ...
The dhol (Punjabi: ) dohol (Persian: ), is a drum (a percussion musical instrument) widely used in India, usually the Punjab Region, the Indian/Pakistani province of Punjab and Gujarat. ...
Doyra (also dojra) is an Uzbek percussion musical instrument, which is something intemediate between a drum and a tambourine. ...
The Goblet drum is a goblet or hour-glass shaped hand drum used in Arab music, Persian music, Balkan music and Turkish music. ...
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The Electronic Keyboard is a popular western instrument.
There are numerous native musical instruments used in folk music.
See also Figurines playing stringed instruments, excavated at Susa, 3rd millennium BC. Iran National Museum. ...
Moosiqi Asil or Persian music is the traditional and indigenous music of Persia and Persian-speaking countries: musiqi, the science and art of music, and moosiqi, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983). ...
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