Persian Musical Instruments
The musical instrument is an object that faithfully records and reflects the evolution of the civilization of a territory. Describing in a few lines a subject so vast and complex as it involves a multitude of aspects, requires identifying which ones allow us to reconstruct the most evident traces in a journey made up of times and places. As the marks left by the performer and by time on the body of an instrument allow us to reconstruct its history as well as on the body of this instrument which is the territory of Iran, the instruments are the signs of an ancient civilization capable of expanding into neighboring territories its original characters by virtue of a poetic and refined cultural domination.
To make the subject complex is the presence, in the present Islamic Republic of Iran, of a great variety of ethnic groups and regions with very pronounced characteristics: the Persian official language, it is spoken by little more than half of the population and other languages characterize strong cultural identities such as those of Azerbaijan, Baluchistan, the Turkmen Plateau (Iranian), the Kurdistan (Iranian), the regions of the Persian Gulf, all regions whose ethnic groups cross the territorial borders making the national belonging more uncertain.
The expressions of each ethnic group, especially when they are characterized by strong identities such as that of Azerbaijan or of Baluchiscan or of Kurdistan, claim their own cultural autonomy with respect to the national one: the dotar, long-necked lute of the Turkmen bards, the version of frame drum DAYERÈ called ARABUNÈ in the province of Yazd, the monossary SORUD viella (case made from a single block of wood) diffused in the Baluchiscan, cannot be reduced to regional instruments but are a component of precise historical-cultural traditions of people that for historical processes have been separated by a border in States different.
The Daf is an instrument of the family of one-face membranophones (an open side) with a body similar to ...
The Tonbak (Tombak, Dombak, Dandunak or Zarb) is a percussion instrument and belongs to the family of tabl shaped ...
The Dotapleh or Dotable is an instrument of the group of membranophones with one face (one closed side) double. It together ...
Dammam is an instrument of the family of two-sided membranophones. It consists of a wooden cylinder ...
The Dohol is an instrument of the family of two-sided membranophones. It, which is present in shapes and sizes ...
The dāyereh is part of the single-skin membranophonic instruments (an open side) with a body similar to a frame. This tool ...
The senj belongs to the family of instruments that sound by own vibration (idiophones). It consists of two circular layers ...
The tār belongs to the family of string instruments (chordophones). A sound box, a handle and a head are the ...
The dotār is an instrument of the plectrum chordophon family which in some areas of Iran is known to others ...
A stringed plectrum instrument with a determined sound, it belongs to the tanbur family and wood is used in its manufacture ...
The kamāncheh belongs to the stringed stringed instruments with determined sound and in its manufacture is used wood, ...
The barbat or rud (oud in Arabic) belongs to the plectrum-sounding stringed instruments. This tool, ancient of ...
The tanbur is an instrument of the plectrum chordophon family, with a long handle and a case. The cash ...
The qeichak belongs to the family of arched chordophones. This tool in various parts of Iran is called by names like ...
The robāb belongs to the family of plectrum chordophones. This instrument consists of a two-part sound box ...
The santur with the shape of an isosceles trapezoid, is part of the plectrum chordophile instruments with indeterminate sound and ...
The ghānun with the shape of a rectangular trapezoid, is part of the plectrum chordophile instruments with indeterminate sound and ...
The ney or cane flute has seven segments (haft band) of this plant and is therefore called ney haft ...
The dozaleh is an instrument of the family of reed aerophones with a double acoustic channel. It has two acoustic channels ...
The ney anbān is a wind instrument dating back to about 2 thousand years and, with some difference in the ...
The sornā belongs to the family of single reed and double reed aerophones. This tool is widespread in most ...
Sheipur is a type of metal bugh composed of a tube with some screws that ends in an opening ...
The kornā (long trumpet with a mouthpiece) belongs to the family of aerophones and is known by names like kornā, kornāy ...
The bugh, bogh or bāghi (sort of trumpet) is an instrument of the family of ancient aerophones, it is manufactured in various ...
