- The
kissar (also
spelled kissir),
tanbour or
gytarah barbaryeh is the
traditional Nubian lyre,
still in use in Egypt,
Sudan and Ethiopia. It
consists of...
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Africa Egypt:
kissar, tanbūra,
simsimiyya Ethiopia and Eritrea: begena, dita, krar Kenya: kibugander, litungu, nyatiti,
obokano Sudan:
kissar, tanbūra Uganda:...
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Qanun Iraqi Santur Jawzah Ghuanbri Kamancheh Rababa Pontic lyra
Simsimiyya Kissar Tanbūra
Jewish Lyre Ney
Kawalah Salamiyah Minjayrah Shababah Shakuli Furayrah...
- In
Romanian In
Hungarian Bercu Szárazberek
Lazuri Lázári
Nisipeni Sándorhomok
Noroieni Kissár Peleș
Nagypeleske Pelișor Kispeleske...
- The tanbūra or "
Kissar" is a bowl lyre of East
Africa and the
Middle East. Tanbūra
traces its
etymology to the
Persian tanbur via the
Arabic tunbur (طنبور)...
-
development of
Aryan palatals to fricatives: OIr. *dz > z:
mossar "big",
kissar "small", heze "yesterday", zun- "know", zumā "son-in-law" (but yešt "ugly"...
- yoke lutes, most of
which are plucked,
among them the begena, endongo,
kissar, krar, litungu, nyatiti, obokano, simsimiyya, and tanbūra.
Scandinavia Finland/Karelia...
- (Southern Africa)
Kalumbu (Zimbabwe)
Kayamb (Mauritius)
Kebero (Ethiopia)
Kissar (Ethiopia)
Kontigi (West Africa)
Krakebs (Algeria) Krar (Ethiopia) Kwitra...
- songs.
Wardi performed using a
variety of instruments,
including the
Nubian kissar and sang in both
Arabic and
Nubian languages. He has been
described as one...
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Grove Dictionary of
Musical Instruments. Vol. 3. New York:
MacMillan Press. p. 388. ISBN 0-943818-05-2.
Kissar Krar Tanbūra el-Tanboura
Music of Egypt...
