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Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian musical instruments spread in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East , Caucasus , Central Asia and through adaptation, relations, and trade, in Europe and far regions of Asia .
Pages in category "Iranian musical instruments" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Some instruments, such as the sorna, neyanban, dohol, and naqare, are usually not used in the classical repertoire, but are used in the folk music. Up until the middle of the Safavid Empire, the chang was an important part of Iranian music. It was then replaced by the qanun , and later by the western piano. The tar functions as the primary ...
The instrument was mainly played in outdoors in regional music of Iran in the festive ceremonies (the Persian poet Molana Rumi mentioned the sorna and dohol in his poems). The Achaemenid sorna was a large trumpet-like instrument, but in later dates was reduced in size, and became more like ( shrill oboe ), or dozale (double oboe), which is ...
Experiments and influences from Iran's folk music have been incorporated into the musical appearance of tasnif, that is a type of vocal composition in Iranian classical music. [9] Composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries used the folk music of their native countries as a source of inspiration for their compositions.
The tanbur is currently the musical instrument used in Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsani) rituals, and practitioners venerate tembûrs as sacred objects. [7] There is also a Taleshi tanbur in small region Talesh in the north of Iran, and Tanburak in Balochistan in the southeast of Iran. [9] But Kermanshahan tanbur is the main and the most famous tanbur in Iran.
The tombak (Persian: تمبک), tonbak (تنبک) or zarb (ضَرب) is an Iranian goblet drum. [1] It is considered the principal percussion instrument of Persian music.The tombak is normally positioned diagonally across the torso, while the player uses one or more fingers and/or the palm(s) of the hand(s) on the drumhead, often (for a ringing timbre) near the drumhead's edge.
String instrument; Other names: setaar or setâr: Classification: Plucked: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 321.321 (Necked-bowl lutes: instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings, in which the resonator and string bearer are physically united and can not be separated without destroying the instrument, in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound ...