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Kemenche ( tr, kemençe) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in
Kemence, from Folk Tours Middle Eastern Dance & Music
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Kemenche ( tr, kemençe) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Armenia
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, Greece
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, Iran
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, Turkey
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, and Azerbaijan
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. and regions adjacent to the Black Sea
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. These instruments are folk instrument
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Overview
The ...
s, generally having three strings and played held upright with their tail on the knee of the musician. The name ''Kemenche'' derives from the Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
Kamancheh
The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) ( fa, کمانچه, az, kamança, hy, Քամանչա, ku, کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, a ...
, meaning merely a "small bow".
Variations
TheKemençe of the Black Sea
The Kemençe of the Black Sea ( tr, Karadeniz kemençesi, el, Ποντιακή λύρα ''Pontiakí lýra'' or ''Pontic lyre'', lzz, Çilili (ჭილილი), hy, քամանի ''Qamani'') is a Greek and Turkish traditional musical instr ...
( tr, Karadeniz kemençesi, italic=y), also known as ''Pontic kemenche'' or ''Pontic lyra'' ( el, Ποντιακή λύρα), is a box-shaped lute ( ), while the classical kemençe
The classical ''kemenche'' ( tr, Klasik kemençe), ('pear-shaped kemenche') or ( el, πολίτικη λύρα, 'Constantinopolitan lyre') is a pear-shaped bowed instrument that derived from the medieval Greek byzantine lyre.
It was mainly u ...
( tr, Klasik kemençe, italic=y or ''Armudî kemençe'', el, Πολίτικη Λύρα) is a bowl-shaped lute ( ).
Other bowed instruments have names sharing the same Persian etymology include the kamancheh
The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) ( fa, کمانچه, az, kamança, hy, Քամանչա, ku, کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, a ...
(or ''Kabak kemane'' in Turkish), a spike lute ( ), and the Cappadocian kemane, an instrument closely related to the kemenche of the Black Sea with added sympathetic string
Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments. They are typically not played directly by the performer (excep ...
s. Though, Circassians of Caucasus also have the same instrument in their own language named as Shikepshine which basically means horse tail violin.
See also
*Byzantine lyra
The Byzantine lyra or lira ( gr, λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. In its popular form, the lyra was a pear-shaped instrument with three to five strings, held upright and played by ...
* Pochette (musical instrument)
The pochette is a small string instrument, stringed instrument of the bowed string instrument, bowed variety. It is essentially a very small Violin family, violin-like wood instrument designed to fit in a pocket, hence its common name, the "pochet ...
References
External links
Kemence, from Folk Tours Middle Eastern Dance & Music
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