Review of Middle Eastern Instruments with Focus on Afghanistan

A short video I made for a presentation in one of my classes ( The Making of Everyday Life in Contemporary Afghanistan). I wanted to throw it away because its taking up tons of space on my desktop, but I didn't want to lose it so I'm putting it here...

Instruments in the video:

Rabab
Dambura
Tambur
Ghichak (old)
Ghichak (new)
Nai
Tula
Harmonium
Sorn & Dohl
Zirbaghali

I forgot to include the tabla in the video, but it is a very popular instrument in Afghanistan and the res of the Middle East.

To any real students of Arab Music, or Afghan music, please forgive my generalizations and lack of understanding in general. This video will be much more interesting to someone who knows absolutely NOTHING about the subject.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• Afghanistan
• instruments
• Middle
• East
• Arab
• Traditional

[arkhatych]

These are deffenetly not afghan Instruments!

[LaurenL90]

@arkhatych Some things may be mislabeled, but the instruments as listed in the comments section are certainly to be found in Afghanistan. Refer to the authors John Bailey, Mark Slobin, or Hiromi Sakata if you care to do more research on the subject.

[arkhatych]

Dambura for example is uzbek instrument!

[LaurenL90]

@arkhatych Yes but it is played in Northern Afghanistan. I meant to display all instruments that are commonly played in any part of Afghanistan, regardless of their origin.

[arkhatych]

Afghan instruments are Pashtun, Tadjik or Aimaq/Hazara instruments! Uzbek or pamir instruments are not Afghan

[LaurenL90]

@arkhatych I based this video on the research done by the three PhD's listed above. If you want to argue with people who have dedicated their lives to researching Afghan music in all its manifestations, be my guest. I have little more to say on the subject. Thank you for your interest.

[robabnawaz]

Please read the books of John Baily Mark Slobin and Hiromi Sakata carefully, you will find that the real afghan instruments look different. As I said before, many instruments have the same name but look different in different countries.

[arkhatych]

Say this guy something. he thinks he knows about Afghan music, and he doesn't!

[arkhatych]

Robabnawaz knows plays afghan music, ask him.

[arkhatych]

Robabnawaz, the guy from the bottom of this page have all the afghan instruments and can play them all.

See his videos and ask him about the instruments!