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Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:37 pm Music Instruments for the Baklunish Bards

Feel free to add more examples if you like. I will link what i have found in Wikipedia, using Iranian and Middle Eastern music instruments:

Bowed instruments:
Ghaychak
Kamancheh
Robab
morin khuur

Plucked instruments:
Barbat
Chang
Saz
Setar
Tar
Oud

Struck instruments:
Santur

Exposed Woodwind instruments:
Sorna

End-blown Woodwind instruments:
Ney

Percussion instruments:
Daf
Naqareh
Davul

Singing Traditions:
Sema
Qawwali
Urtyn duu
khoomei

Dancing Traditions:
Sufi Whirling

Main Source - Wikipedia

Updated 30/09/2007 - Added some Mongolian and Persian/Indian instruments and musical traditions. Thanks smillan_31 for the aditional information. I hope all of you can help me whith this mini-project.

Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:00 pm

Looks like a good list. I'd add some mongol and turko-mongol instruments for the Wolf and Tiger nomads although there are only a few and most of these are pretty similar to Persian and other middle-eastern instruments.

One thing - you probably just grabbed the wrong link - but the robab is an Afghan lute and belongs with the plucked instruments. The rebab is a bowed instrument, and is much more widespread.

For flavor's sake you could include some singing traditions like sema and it's descendant qawwali, or Mongolian urtyn duu and throat singing.

Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:40 pm

Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:04 am

It would be really cool if this list could be developed more. I've always had a fascination with this kind of detail, but there's so little of it out there. More, please!

Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:17 pm

Do you intend to keep this list sourced purely from real world instruments?

Or will you be developing (or open to the development of) "purely Baklunish" instruments (i.e. stuff people make up out of nothing but imagination and crayons)? Smile