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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 ...
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.
Kamancheh. The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (Persian: کمانچه, Azerbaijani: kamança, Armenian: քամանչա, Kurdish: کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, [1] Azerbaijani, [2] Armenian, [3] Kurdish, [4] Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument.
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The major musical instruments used in the Bandari style include the nei anban (a bagpipe instrument made of goat's skin), [2] the tombak (a percussion instrument made of animal skin and the wood of the walnut tree), [2] the daf (a percussion instrument made of animal skin and a wooden frame like the head of a drum, with jingles on the rim, similar to the tambourine), and the darbuka (a ...