Tanbur - Uzbek Traditional Music Instrument
Instrument of Uzbek Music - Tanbur
The terms Tanbur, Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambur, Tambura or Tanboor can refer to various long-necked, string instrument originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia.
Nowadays the term Tanbur (or Tambur) is applied to a variety of distinct and related long-necked string instruments used in art and folk traditions in India, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.
The Uzbek Tanbur has four metal strings that run over a small loose bridge to a bit of wood at the edge of the body. It is always played with a wire plectrum on the index-finger. Its body is carved from a hollowed out piece of mulberry wood, and the front is made from mulberry.
Its neck is often decorated with inlay bone or white plastic.
String
- Dutor (long-necked fretted lute)
- Rubob (long-necked fretted lute)
- Tor (long-necked fretted lute)
- Ud (long-necked fretted lute)
- Gijjak (spike fiddle)
- Chang (struck zither)
Wind
- Karnay (long trumpet)
- Nay (side-blown flute)
- Qoshnay (clarinet like instrument made from reed)
- Surnay (loud oboe)
Percussion
