habbān
There are several bagpipes of the Middle East and Persian Gulf, with local cultural differences. There are several Arabic terms for the bagpipes, including habbān (هبان), jirbah (جربة). It is similar to the (Persian) ney-anbān.
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There are several bagpipes of the Middle East and Persian Gulf, with local cultural differences. There are several Arabic terms for the bagpipes, including habbān (هبان), jirbah (جربة). It is similar to the (Persian) ney-anbān.
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• Name — Habban • Names — هبان • Classification — *Bagpiping The habbān (or hibbān) is a type of bagpipe used in the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf (especially Bahrain, Palestine, and Kuwait). The term is drawn from Hanbān (هنبان), the Persian word for "bag". In Gulf states the term habban refers to the traditional Holi (inhabitants of the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf) bagpipe. While the term itself is generic, in Oman the term habban is used specifically for a nativized variant of the Great Highland bagpipe that has been incorporated into local music.
Jirba
Jirba
The jirba ((also spelled جربة; also transliterated dzirba, girba) is a traditional folk instrument from Bahrain and Kuwait. It is a droneless, double-reeded, single-chantered bagpipe, played particularly by ethnic Iranians, as well as on the Kuwaiti island of Faylaka. The bag is usually made from the skin of a goat, and filled with air via the mouth. The lower part of the bag is attached to a wooden flute like instrument which has either 4 or 6 holes. The two reeds are positioned side by side which produce a harmonious double note.
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• Name — Ney anban • Names — نی انبان • Classification — *Bagpipe • Related — Jirba Ney-anbān (numerous Latin spellings), is a type of bagpipe which is popular in southern Iran, especially around Bushehr. The term ney-anban literally means "bag pipe", but more specifically can refer to a type of droneless double-chantered bagpipes played in Southern Iran. In Bushehr, the ney-anban is used to accompany sarva, the singing of free-metre couplets.
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Latin spelling of the name of this pipe include: ney-hanbān, ney-anbun, ney ammbooni, nai-ambana hanbun, hanbuneh, nay-anban.
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- 1.Urkevich, Lisa (2015). Music and traditions of the Arabian Peninsula : Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. New York: Routledge. .
- 2.Stanley Sadie. The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments. Macmillan Press, 1984. 0943818052, 9780943818054
- 3.Hurreiz, Sayed Hamid A. Folklore and folklife in the United Arab Emirates. RoutledgeCurzon 2002.
- 4.Dipiazza, Francesca Davis. Kuwait in Pictures. Twenty-First Century Books (CT), 2006. .
- 5.Oman Centre for Traditional Music.
- 6.Edward Balfour. Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific: products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures. Scottish and Adelphi Presses. 23–. 1873.
- 7.Ehsan Yar-Shater. Encyclopaedia iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 572. 1990. 978-0-7100-9090-4.
- 8.Jarahzadeh, Kamyar. Music and Race Politics in the Iranian Persian Gulf: Shanbehzadeh and "Bandari". Ajam Media Collective. 8 February 2013.
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