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Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya Mizmar ini Display the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo
Azeri Music, the varied traditions of Cypriot music, the Turkish music of Turkey, traditional Assyrian music, Coptic ritual music in Egypt as well as other genres of Egyptian music in general. It is widely regarded that some Middle-Eastern musical styles have influenced Central Asia , as well as the Balkans and Spain .
Noisemaker is a musical instrument which is not Used for music but rather for noisemaking: unpitched percussion: musical instrument Pahū Pounamu: idiophones: New Zealand, Traditional Maori Gong: tam-tam Piano (pianoforte) also used melodically, see chordophones: chordophones: 314.122-4-8: Italy: stringed instruments: keyboard hammmer-struck ...
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
Daf (Persian: دف), also known as dâyere and riq, is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) [1] frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia. It is also used in Afghanistan , Azerbaijan , Tajikistan , Iran , Uzbekistan , many regions of Georgia , Armenia , Pakistan as well as in parts of India [ 2 ...
The Eastern and North-African goblet drums are played under the arm or resting on the player's leg, with a much lighter touch and quite different strokes (sometimes including rolls or quick rhythms articulated with the fingertips) to hand drums such as the djembe, found in West Africa.
The naqareh, naqqāra, nagara or nagada is a Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a hide head, usually played in pairs. It is thus a membranophone of the kettle drum variety. The term naqqāra ( نقاره ), also نقارات naqqarat , naqqarah , naqqåre , nakkare , nagora comes from the Arabic verb naqr- that means "to strike, beat".