Turkish Woodwind Professional Zurna

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Each online lesson takes place between one teacher and one student for either 30 or 60 minutes. For children's sessions, parents can attend their child's classes. Zurna is an instrument that is widely used in Azerbaijan. The word zurna consists of two parts: “sur” (great party) and “nay” (reed). The 302–317mm long body is carved from the trees of walnut, mulberry or apricot trees and the width of the mouth pieces is 20mm and extends in the end portion up to 65mm. According to the archeological excavations there is found four pipes made from deer horn in Mingachevir. [16]

Davul (drum) is the oldest known percussion instrument. It can be in different sizes and is generally used in open spaces on occasions such as weddings, folk dances or different ceremonies. It consists of a circular wooden frame and a hoop made from two skins and covered with skin which is put on the frame with the help of strong strings or leather ribbons. This article or section should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{ lang}}, {{ transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{ IPA}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used. See why. ( June 2021) Azerbaijan:: Balaban". garabagh.net (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 2018-06-24 . Retrieved 2018-06-24.Selecting repertoire is one of the most challenging and important tasks that we take on in the development of our students’ musical education. Students at all levels will be given a selection of repertoire from multiple genres of music (Traditional, Folk) to study and perfect. It requires high pressure to give any tone at all and when it does, it is almost constantly loud, high pitched, sharp, and piercing. Evliya Çelebi gave important data about mehterhane and mehter musikisi in the middle of XVIIth century. “There are 300 artists in mehterhane-i Hümayun (the mehterhane of the palace) in Istanbul. These are quite precious and well paid people. There is additionally a mehter takımı of 40 people in Yedikule since there is a citadel. They are on duty three times a day, in other words they give three concerts, so that public listens to Turkish military music. This is a law of Fatih. Moreover, there are 1.000 mehter artists in addition to them in Istanbul. Their bands are in Eyüp Sultan, Kasımpaşa (kapdan-ı Deryalık, the center of Turkish Naval Forces), Galata, Tophane, Rumelihisarı, Beykoz, Anadolu Hisarı, Üsküdar and Kız Kulesi. These mehter bands are on duty (i.e. give concerts) twice a day, in the daybreak and sunset hour.” The name is because you produce sound on this percussion instrument by essentially striking two spoons against each other, usually in a rhythm to accompany a dance. Seven holes on the front, and one thumb hole, provide a range of over one octave including some transposition. [ citation needed]

a b Huseynova, Aida (March 2016). Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera (Ethnomusicology Multimedia). Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253019455.Kabak kemane is an instrument without pitches and produces all types of chromatic sounds easily. Its sound is suitable for long plays and can be used for legato, Staccato and Pizzicato paces. Karadeniz Kemencesi

It is a double-reed woodwind instrument that has a very bright, high-frequency sound; it is almost inseparable from davul (Turkish bass drum) and it is thought that they constitute a good ensemble for traditional weddings. It is constructed from one piece of wood, had one thumb-hole, and up to eight finger-holes. The player blows into the double-reed mouthpiece which is inserted into the mouth and uses circular breathing to make the melody continuous. We sell zurnas in apricot and plum wood which are the most used types of wood in zurna construction. And because of this long and interwoven history, Turkish musical instruments are part of a tradition that extends out of Turkish culture and into many of the surrounding cultures in the Middle East and Asia.The smallest zurna is called cura or bell zurna, the medium-sized zurna is called the medium-coarse zurna, and the largest is called the coarse zurna.