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Street Musician Playing Bulgarian Gadulka

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Uploaded by on May 16, 2006

Street musician in Zaragoza, Spain bowing a Bulgarian gadulka. The instrument looks a little like the Afghan rebab or the Indian sarod. Thanks to all the youtubers who helped me figure out what this thing was!

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  • This instrument is quite definitely not an Afghan Rabab. It is a Bulgarian Gadulka.

  • Hey! Thanks so much for the info. I updated the title.

  • I wish i could play like that .

  • Yeah I wish i could play one of those things period. I looked all over for one in morocco a few days after I saw this musician but I had a horrible guide who only wanted to take me to the rug, brass, and zilij vendors. Do you know what this instrument is called?

  • It's called a lotar, you could probably find one in a morrocan market place .

  • Not sure if you're interested but I think I figured out what this thing actually is. It seems to be a rabab. If you look closely you will see several tuning pegs on the instrument which are for sympathetic strings. The lotar or oud is just basically a lute which has no sympathetic strings.

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  • It is very beautiful instrument so sad that didn't know it before , concerning afghan rubab or indian sarod well , because of our history we could say we are same race yes it does look like any kind of instruments u could find in our lands. Brothers have same tests , by the way keep up ur channel bro.

  • actually.. this looks nowhere near close to the indian sarod

  • Whats the piece of music He's playing, I use to play that interment before I broke my hands and had to sell it all, so I know the piece, just not the name.

  • more like Bulgaria Gypsy

  • Bulgaria, its written on the Video,

  • and mind you this guy is playing beautifully! What nationality was he?

  • I am an Indian musician and there are similarities between Indian music and this. We have many types of bowed instruments like Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. There sure must b a connection as I have heard many players of this instrument speak to me about it.

  • Hi, iBreakCameras. If u r interested in that musical instrument, I can send u some more links.

  • i fail to see how it looks like a rabab or sarod

  • no.... this instrumen its actually Indian, and the indian has one string. our instruments are just little different but the orinigals comes from India.

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