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The Qanun is the Arabian zither. It is a flat trapezoidal wooden box, with twenty-four strings in triple fastened at its rectangular side on one end and to pegs on the oblique side on the other. The player to make slight changes in pitch manipulates small levels lying below each course of strings. The strings are plucked with two horn plectra, one on each index finger. It is basically a zither with a narrow trapezoidal soundboard. Silk strings ( Sim ) are stretched over a single bridge poised on fish-skins ( Pust ) on one end, attached to tuning pegs at the other end.
Creator
This instrument is created by Farabi or is developed by him.
History
Arabs moved this instrument to Europe (Spain).
Parts
| Gol |
Strings |
Damaqe |
Xarak |
Pust |
Gushi |
Between other nations
Arabs
They call it Qanun. Arabic qanuns employ quarter-tones.
Arabs players
Armens
They call it Kanun. Armenian kanuns employ half-tones.
Armenian players
Turks
They call it Kanun. Kanuns used in Turkey have 26 courses of strings, with three strings per course. It is played on the lap by plucking the strings with two tortoise-shell picks, one in each hand, or by the fingernails, and has a range of three and a half octaves, from A2 to E6. The dimensions of Turkish kanuns are typically 95 to 100 cm (37-39") long, 38 to 40 cm (15-16") wide and 4 to 6 cm (1.5-2.3") high.
Typical Turkish kanuns divide the equal-tempered semitone of 100 cents into 6 equal parts, yielding 72 equal divisions (or commas) of the octave. Not all pitches of 72-tone equal temperament are available on the Turkish kanun, however, since kanun makers only affix mandals for intervals that are demanded by performers. Some kanun makers choose to divide the semitone of the lower registers into 7 parts instead for microtonal subtlety at the expense of octave equivalances. Hundreds of mandal configurations are at the player's disposal when performing on an ordinary Turkish kanun.
Turkish players
References
- Encyclopedia of Persian Instruments - Ali Tajvidi
External links
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