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Kamancheh. The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (Persian: کمانچه, Azerbaijani: kamança, Armenian: քամանչա, Kurdish: کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, [1] Azerbaijani, [2] Armenian, [3] Kurdish, [4] Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument.
Kemenche (Turkish: kemençe, Persian : کمانچه) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. [1] and regions adjacent to the Black Sea.
The Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911) was the first to describe the Byzantine lyra as a typical Byzantine instrument (Margaret J. Kartomi, 1990). Variations of the instrument (sharing the same form and method of playing) exist through a vast area of the Mediterranean and the Balkans .
Kemane (Macedonian: ќемане, pronounced; Serbian: ћемане) is a bowed string instrument traditionally used in the Balkans and Anatolia.It is the Macedonian and southern Serbian version of the kemenche, it is very similar to the violin or viola [1] [2] and related to the Bulgarian gadulka.
During the excavations of Dvin, one of the capitals of Armenia, a violin-like instrument with the image of a musician on his shoulder was found, a variant of which is the bambir. The bowed instrument of the violin is a relative of the Pontic lyre. Keman differs from Bambir in size (55–70 cm long) and the number of main lines (four to seven).
The playing ranges of the instruments in the violin family overlap each other, but the tone quality and physical size of each distinguishes them from one another. The ranges are as follows: violin: G 3 to E 7 (practical, notes up to A7 are possible); viola: C 3 to A 6 (conservative); violoncello: C 2 to A 5 (conservative); and double-bass: E 1 to C 5 (slightly expanded from conservative estimate).
A keman from Iemitsu mausoleum at Shiba temple (Zōjō-ji), gilt bronze ca. 1630. Figures are prob. karyobinga though identified as Kwannon in catalog. [1]Keman (華鬘(けまん)) (Japanese phoneticization from the Sanskrit kusumamālā "Garland of Flowers" [2]), is a Buddhist ritual decoration, placed hanging on the beam of the inner sanctuary before the enshrined Buddha, in the main hall of ...
The instruments depicted by Ferrari have bulging front and back plates, strings that feed into peg-boxes with side pegs, and f-holes. They do not have frets. The only real difference between those instruments and the modern violin is that Ferrari's have three strings and a rather more extravagant curved shape. [ 17 ]