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Kemençe Players
Kemenche (, Persian : کمانچه) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. and regions adjacent to the Black Sea. These instruments are folk instruments, generally having three strings and played held upright with their tail on the knee of the musician. The name ''Kemenche'' derives from the Persian Kamancheh, meaning a "small bow". Variations The Kemençe of the Black Sea (), also known as ''Pontic kemenche'' or ''Pontic lyra'' (), is a box-shaped lute ( in the Hornbostel-Sachs system), while the classical kemençe ( or ''Armudî kemençe'', ) is a bowl-shaped lute ( ). Other bowed instruments have names sharing the same Persian etymology include the kamancheh (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 sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kemenche (, Persian : کمانچه) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. and regions adjacent to the Black Sea. These instruments are folk instruments, generally having three strings and played held upright with their tail on the knee of the musician. The name ''Kemenche'' derives from the Persian Kamancheh, meaning a "small bow". Variations The Kemençe of the Black Sea (), also known as ''Pontic kemenche'' or ''Pontic lyra'' (), is a box-shaped lute ( in the Hornbostel-Sachs system), while the classical kemençe ( or ''Armudî kemençe'', ) is a bowl-shaped lute ( ). Other bowed instruments have names sharing the same Persian etymology include the kamancheh (or ''Kabak kemane'' in Turkish), a spike lute ( ), and the Cappadocian kemane, an instrument closely related to the kemenche of the Black Sea with add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornbostel–Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, first published in the in 1914. An English translation was published in the '' Galpin Society Journal'' in 1961. It is the most widely used system for classifying musical instruments by ethnomusicologists and organologists (people who study musical instruments). The system was updated in 2011 as part of the work of the Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) Project. Hornbostel and Sachs based their ideas on a system devised in the late 19th century by Victor-Charles Mahillon, the curator of musical instruments at Brussels Conservatory. Mahillon divided instruments into four broad categories according to the nature of the sound-producing material: an air column; string; membrane; and body of the instrument. From this basis, Hornbostel and Sachs expanded Mahillon's system to make it possible to classify any instrument from any cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutes
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" commonly refers to an instrument from the family of European lutes which were themselves influenced by Indian short-necked lutes in Gandhara which became the predecessor of the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese and the European lute families. The term also refers generally to any necked string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system). The strings are attached to pegs or posts at the end of the neck, which have some type of turning mechanism to enable the player to tighten the tension on the string or loosen the tension before playing (which respectively raise or lower the pitch of a string), so that each string is tuned to a specific pitch (or note). The lute is plucked or strummed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pochette (musical Instrument)
The pochette is a small stringed instrument of the bowed variety. It is a small violin-like instrument designed to fit in a pocket, hence the name "pochette" (French for ''small pocket''). Also known as a pocket fiddle, it was designed to be used by dance masters in royal courts and noble households, and by street musicians, from about the 15th century until around the 19th century, becoming especially popular in the 1800s. Prior, the rebec was used in a similar way, and some modern pochettes descend from the rebec instead of the violin family. A common misconception is that pochettes were intended for children, when in fact they were conceived for adults; their small size allowed them to be used where the larger violins were too cumbersome to carry, or too expensive to own. The instrument's body is very small, but its fingerboard is long relative to the instrument's overall size, to preserve as much of the instrument's melodic range as possible. Pochettes come in many shapes, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byzantine Lyra
The Byzantine lyra or lira () 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 stopping the strings from the side with the fingertips and fingernails. The oldest known depiction of the instrument is on a Byzantine ivory casket, dated to circa 900–1100 AD, preserved in the Bargello in Florence (''Museo Nazionale, Florence, Coll. Carrand, No.26''). Modern variants of the lyra are still played throughout the Balkans and in areas surrounding the Black Sea (and most of the historical territories of the Byzantine Empire), including Greece, Crete ( Cretan lyra), Karpathos (Karpathian lyra), Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria (the '' gadulka''), North Macedonia, Croatia ( Dalmatian '' lijerica''), Italy (the Calabrian lira), Turkey (the '' politiki lyra'' and the Pontic lyra or ''kemençe'') and Armenia. History The most lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circassians
The Circassians or Circassian people, also called Cherkess or Adyghe (Adyghe language, Adyghe and ), are a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former country in the North Caucasus. As a consequence of the Circassian genocide, which was perpetrated by the Russian Empire during the Russo-Circassian War in the 19th century, most of the Circassian people were exiled from their ancestral homeland and consequently began living in what was then the Ottoman Empire—that is, modern-day Turkey and the rest of the Middle East. In the early 1990s, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization estimated that there are as many as 3.7 million Circassian diaspora, Circassians in diaspora in over 50 countries. The two Circassian languages—western Adyghe language, Adyghe and eastern Kabardian language, Kabardian—are natively spoken by the Circassian people. After the Russian Empire's war crimes and forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (except occasionally as an effect), only indirectly through the tones that are played on the main strings, based on the principle of sympathetic resonance. The resonance is most often heard when the fundamental frequency of the string is in unison or an octave lower or higher than the catalyst note, although it can occur for other intervals, such as a fifth, with less effect. Description Sympathetic strings are used to enhance the sound of an instrument. Some instruments have only a few sympathetic strings such as the Hardanger fiddle (pictured above right). Other instruments which have more include the sitar with 11-13 sympathetic strings and sarod with 15 sympathetic strings, and the sarangi, which has a total of 37 sympathetics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemane Of Cappadocia
Kemane of Cappadocia or Cappadocian lyra is named a large lyre of the Cappadocian Greeks, in Anatolia.Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών, ''Ο τελευταίος ελληνισμός της Μικράς Ασίας: Έκθεση του έργου του Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών (1930-1973). Κατάλογος''. Αθήνα, 1982σελ. 71, 73 It has six main strings, as well as six sympathetics. It has been evolved from the Byzantine lyra. Characteristics The Kemane has six main strings tuned in fifths or fourths, as well as six sympathetic strings (strung in parallel with the other strings and not on their own, improving the sound of the instrument). They are either on the same pitch, or an octave higher than the main strings. Kemane means violin in Turkish. It has a bottle-shaped body, short neck or ''"μάνικο" (maniko, lit. sleeve)'', a fingerboard, similar to the Pontic Lyra or the Black Sea Kemence, but the pegbox, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Lutes
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Kamancheh
The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (, , , ) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. The kamancheh is related to the rebab which is the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and the bowed Byzantine lyra. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow. In 2017, the art of crafting and playing with Kamantcheh/Kamancha was included into the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists of Azerbaijan and Iran. Name and etymology The word "kamancheh" means "little bow" in Persian (''kæman'', bow, and ''-cheh'', diminutive). The Turkish word kemençe is borrowed from Persian, with the pronunciation adapted to Turkish phonology. It also denotes a bowed string instrument, but the Turkish version differs significantly in structure and sound from the Persian kamancheh. There is also an instrument called ''kabak kemane'' lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Kemençe
The classical ''kemenche'' (), ('pear-shaped kemenche') or (, 'Constantinopolitan lyre') is a pear-shaped bowed instrument that derived from the medieval Greek Byzantine lyre. It was mainly used by Greeks, Greek immigrants from Asia Minor and in classical Ottoman Empire, Ottoman music. The instrument was also used earlier for popular music, such as early "Smyrna-Style" Rebetiko and played till nowadays. It has become the main bowed instrument of Ottoman classical music since the mid 19th century. Etymology The name ''Kemençe'' derives from the Persian language, Persian Kamancheh, and means merely "small bow". The name ''lyra'' derives from the name of the ancient Greek lyre and was used in medieval times, see Byzantine lyra. Playing It is played in the downright position, by resting it between both knees or on one knee when sitting. It is always played "braccio", that is, with the tuning head uppermost. The kemenche bow is called the yay () and the ''doksar'' (), the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
