Lamma Bada Yatathanna on the Cumbus

Ok, lets start with: it's not a cooking pot, it's not a banjo, it's not a guitar, it's pure FUN! (as its name means). This is the very young Turkish instrument called Cumbus invented in the late 20's early 30's. The Cumbus is a fairly cheap (around $150 in the US), it's a sturdy thing and pretty hard to play. The cool thing is that it could use almost any oud tuning and it's fretless. It works ok to study the oud on, and right now I use it as a kind of poor mans oud. I'm playing the ancient Arabic song Lamma Bada Yatathanna. My technique is not perfect, but I'm working on it........

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Music

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• cumbus
• cümbüş
• turkish
• turkiet
• sweden
• sverige
• oud
• arabic
• muwashshah
• banjo
• fretless
• maqam
• nahawand
• hamza
• el
• din
• risha

[nwitron1]

What the tuning for it?

[FredFredrik]

My cumbus tuning is: G,A,D,G,C,E (E should be F, but one of the strings broke, so I tuned the remaining one down to E)

[suphibaykal]

what matters turk or arab? arent we children of same god? stop this crap pls..

[Dansback21]

What a fantastic instrument. Its like a banjo/ oud/ sitar cross. I wonder why its not more popular?

[werewolvina]

This is beautiful!

[muhrvis]

Very cool, love the funky sound.

[Oguzhanpasa1907]

turkish imstrument

[yamahonkawazuki]

@AlexBouzouki i had heard this as well. " rediculous" or life of the party. either way love the sound of it. appreciate the correction my friend :)

[AlexBouzouki]

@yamahonkawazuki cumbus comes from the word συμποσιον (sumbosion) ,which means fest in greek but in turkish means ridiculous

[AlexBouzouki]

@nathpowe It is very hard...I want one too, I dont have much time but I am interested in playing Byzantine scales(echoi) and turkish makams.Gratefully I know people to show me...I believe a teacher or a friend is the best solution...

[nathpowe]

I play guitar, viola, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, and cello, but now I want one of THESE. I know where to get one, but before I do, I really want to know how I'm going to learn it... I would use a book, or person, or Youtube instructables, but idk where to find any of those. Help?

[yamahonkawazuki]

@wackyruss similar to a banjo. but not a banjo. its called a cumbus. in turkish meaning somethign similar to " life of the party"

[yamahonkawazuki]

@100copies you have your version uploaded?

[yamahonkawazuki]

mainly means " life of the party"