Ney-anbān ( fa, نی انبان , numerous Latin spellings), is a type of

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, ...

which is popular in southern Iran, especially around

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. The term ''ney-anban'' literally means "bag pipe", - ''Nai, signifies a reed, pipe, &c, and Anban or Anbanah, a bag made of the skin taken entire otf a sheep. It is a musical instrument not often seen in Persia beyond the Garmsir (or "warm region") about Bushahr'' but more specifically can refer to a type of droneless double-chantered bagpipes played in Southern Iran. This is similar to the

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ian '' jirba'' played by ethnic Iranians in the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bod ...

islands. In Bushehr, the ney-anban is used to accompany '' sarva'', the singing of free-metre couplets.

Orthography

Latin spelling of the name of this pipe include: ''ney-hanbān'', ''ney-anbun'', ''ney ammbooni'', ''nai-ambana'' ''hanbun'', ''hanbuneh, nay-anban''.

External links

Ney-anbān
video by Saeid Shanbezadeh

References

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