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The robab (also spelled rubāb) is a plucked string instrument from Iran. It is also Afghanistan's national instrument, and is particularly favored by the Pashtun ethnic group. It is used in ensembles as well as to play instrumental solos. The Pashtuns (also Pushtun, Pakhtun, ethnic Afghan, or Pathan) are an ethno-linguistic group consisting mainly of eastern Iranian stock living primarily in eastern and southern Afghanistan, and the North West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. ...
It is a short-necked lute made of wood, with goatskin covering the body. It has three melody strings, three drone strings, and 11 or 12 sympathetic strings. The instrument is made from the stem of the mulberry tree and the strings are made from the intestines of young goats, brought to the size of thread. The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. ...
Sympathetic strings are strings on musical instruments which begin resonating, not due to any external influence such as picking or bowing, but due to another note (or frequency). ...
Species See text Mulberry (Morus) is a genus of 10–16 species of deciduous trees native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and North America, with the majority of the species native to Asia. ...
It is the ancestor of the North Indian sarod, which is used in Hindustani classical music, but, unlike the sarod, is a fretted instrument. The sarod is an Indian classical musical instrument which probably originates from the Senya rebab, an Indio-Persian instrument played in India to the 19th century. ...
Hindustani (हिनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤¸à¥à¤¤à¤¾à¤¨à¥€/Ûندوستانی) Classical Music is an Indian classical music tradition that took shape in northern Indian subcontinent circa the 13th and 14th centuries AD in the courts of Delhi Sultanate[citation needed] from existing religious, folk, and theatrical performance practices. ...
The neck of a guitar showing the first four frets. ...
It is not to be confused with the rebab, which is played with a bow. The rebab is a bowed string instrument which was heavily used in Afghan music. ...
In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ...
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- picture of Rubab played by Atiq Nikzad and Tabla by James Kippin
Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories, namely classical, western and folk. ...
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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. ...
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