Arabic musical instrument
Arabic musical instruments are instruments developed and mainly used by people from the Arab world. Usage of these instruments, often more than a thousand years old, were once limited to the region's traditional and contemporary music, but today they are commonly used in world music and popular music from all around the world. Like most instruments they are broadly classified into three categories, string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion instruments. • Illustration — Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem • Illustration — Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe • Illustration — Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya • Illustration — Mizmar ini Display • Illustration — the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties • Illustration — Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo
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Arabic musical instruments are instruments developed and mainly used by people from the Arab world. Usage of these instruments, often more than a thousand years old, were once limited to the region's traditional and contemporary music, but today they are commonly used in world music and popular music from all around the world. Like most instruments they are broadly classified into three categories, string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion instruments. • Illustration — Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem • Illustration — Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe • Illustration — Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya • Illustration — Mizmar ini Display • Illustration — the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties • Illustration — Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo
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Plucked lutes
Plucked lutes
• Oud • Qanbūs • Buzuq • Awtar • Lutar • Sintir
Zithers
Zithers
• Qanun • Iraqi Santur
Bowed lutes
Bowed lutes
• Jawzah • Guembri • Kamancheh • Rebab • Pontic lyra (Kemençe)
Lyres
Lyres
• Simsimiyya • Kissar • Tanbūra • Jewish Lyre
Flutes
Flutes
• Ney • Kawalah • Salamiyah • Minjayrah • Shababah • Shakuli • Furayrah • Kasab
Reed instruments
Reed instruments
• Mizmar • Khalul (Gulfian Mizmar) • Rhaita • Arghul • Zumarah bi suwan • Maqrunah • Mijwiz • Haban (Gulfian Bagpipe) • Jirbah (East Tunisian Bagpipe) • Mizwad (West Tunisian Bagpipe) • Zughra (Moroccan Bagpipe) • Saksifun (Arabic Saxophone)
Trumpets
Trumpets
• Nafir
Drums and frame drums
Drums and frame drums
• Riq • Daf • Bendir • Dumbaki (Darbuka) • Duhulah • Drinjah • Bass Drinjah • Khishbah • Kasurah • Tabl Tsjikangha • Tabl Masanduw • Tabl Bib • Taarija • Tar • Tar Barashim (Shake Tar) • Tar Mirjaf (Low Tar) • Tar Saghul (High Tar) • Katim • Mirwas • Zir (Naqarah) • Qas'ah • Tbilat • Tabl Bahri (Khamari & Laauwb) • Tabl Hajir (Khamari & Laauwb) • Tabl Nasayfi (Khamari & Laauwb) • Al Ras • Mazhar
Other percussion
Other percussion
• Shakhshikhah (Sistrum) • Sajat • Turah (Egyptian Sajat) • Twaysat (Gulf Sajat) • Krakeb • Hawan (instrument) • Yahalah/Jahalah (Clay jug) • Manjur • Mihbaj • Maalaqa • Safqa (Arabic hand clap)
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Arabic musical instrument is classified as a musical instrument.
Arabic musical ensemble with flute, two string instruments and tambourine
After painting by A. Bida · Über Land und Meer, 1881: No. 18, p. 352
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