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Post by Esteban on Jun 20, 2009 0:59:47 GMT 2
Hmm...we have caval here too, and also all kinds of similar instruments for whistling as they say. The bagpipes seem to be a rare presence lately (,cimpoi" ,pronounced ,cheempoii'). You should also check the mighty ,,tulnic" (toolnik). I'll search for sites with infos and post one of these days. Oh, or you can visit for example www.folkromania.com . Btw, Anwend ,check Grigore Lese on YouTube I think that the Kaval was originally a Turkish (Ottoman; no wonder if it is Arabic aswell) instrument which we have adopted during the years :] Neverthless, it's an inseparable part of our (Balkan) folk music :] You are right.Kaval is a Turkish instrument.It is used by shepherds in Turkey.I didn't know that it is played in Balkan folk music.Thank you =) .And "saz" is inseperable part of Turkish folk music too.If you had listened Satriani's last album,you may listened a song called "Asik Vaysel"(Veysel is true.).In my opinion he was the greatest saz player in Turkey.He played it though his blindness.Aşık Veysel's songs are best to listen "saz".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 13:33:04 GMT 2
Oh, well, Esteban we share a lot of good and bad things in this area.. ;D The instruments are in the good category,but l still think that Kaval has thracian origin...though l must check this info sometimes with credible sources. What other instruments can you name? Be our guide in the realm of true folk Turkish music, as I've had enough of lame copycats..
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Post by pivopijasrbija87 on Jun 27, 2009 12:04:19 GMT 2
I'm going to tell you about Serbian national instrument called "Gusle". It is also popular among other Slavic nations, but is a bit different. In Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia&Herzegovina and Dalmatia (part of Croatia) it is made with only one string, while in the north-western part of Bosnia known as Krajina and the nearby Lika (in Croatia), it is made with two strings. String is made of 30 intertwined horse hairs, the fiddle-bow also. Sound is generated by pulling the fiddle-bow over the string(s), producing sharp and extremely expressive dramatic sound. Gusle consist of a body clothed with animal skin and a neck with an animal head (usually of a horse) or a bird head (eagle or hawk) carved at its end. Gusle is made of maple, and it's not only by chance. In Serbian pagan tradition, before Christianity, the maple tree symbolized the cult of ancestors. Gusle played an extremely important historical role because guslars (men who played it) sang throughout the centuries about important events from the turbulent and dramatic Serbian history, until those songs were written in the 19th century. Guslars (singers) are individuals capable of reproducing long narrative texts about heroes and events from the distant past and are able to improvise new ones in the decasyllabic metre (десетерац). Most of the songs are about the time of the Turkish occupation and Serbian struggle for independence. Also, the Serbs who were forced to accept Islam (nowadays Muslims in Bosnia and middle Serbia), managed to maintain the tradition of gusle but today it isn't popular among them at all. Gusle further derive from middle Asia and it is not known for sure how it got to Serbs. It is assumed it came from the Byzantine Empire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_EcSj57g-AHere is a song about one of the greatest Serbian heroes, Milos Obilic, who, at the epic battle at Kosovo in 1389., managed to pass through the entire Turkish army and to kill Turkish sultan Murrat. Then the Turks beheaded him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2009 13:10:45 GMT 2
With this one, you've hit me, serbian drinking beer man! a nice presentation and I anticipated I 'd like what's on you tube as I'm such a fool for srbska music,due to my ancient roots... Well, I did love it, and again I felt that sense of loss and nostalgy for a forgotten land from where my ancestors left...a torrent of nostalgia and also joy, weird combo.. Tell us more, will ya?
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Post by pivopijasrbija87 on Jun 27, 2009 18:27:25 GMT 2
Thanks Tina, glad you liked it ! Now, I know this maybe isn't for this topic but I think you're gonna like it. It's a song by "Teodulija", a group that plays Serbian traditional music.. Also, in the video some old traditional instruments can be seen, if you're interested I could write about some of them.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAQzmFBnkgQ
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Post by Bartbär on Jun 27, 2009 18:49:30 GMT 2
Thanks Tina, glad you liked it ! Now, I know this maybe isn't for this topic but I think you're gonna like it. It's a song by "Teodulija", a group that plays Serbian traditional music.. Also, in the video some old traditional instruments can be seen, if you're interested I could write about some of them.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAQzmFBnkgQIt is exactly for this topic friend. I want people to share as many traditional bands as well as instruments, it gives us all a chance to hear the instruments played in their natural setting and organic atmosphere. This song is wonderful... Please, write more if you do not mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2009 19:00:07 GMT 2
My serbian genes are howling! ;D You must give me time to absorb this better..for the moment..nemam reci! Hvala!
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Post by pivopijasrbija87 on Jun 27, 2009 19:18:40 GMT 2
Whoa ! Hvala vam I'm gonna start a new topic and in it I'll be presenting many different kinds of Serbian traditional music and games, probably tomorrow, I'm busy at the moment.. Now, it's drinking time Zivjeli! (cheers)
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Post by Esteban on Jun 28, 2009 22:02:07 GMT 2
Oh, well, Esteban we share a lot of good and bad things in this area.. ;D The instruments are in the good category,but l still think that Kaval has thracian origin...though l must check this info sometimes with credible sources. What other instruments can you name? Be our guide in the realm of true folk Turkish music, as I've had enough of lame copycats.. Are the sources you checked on net?If they are on net,I would like to see them.Maybe I don't know enough. Other Turkish Instruments?I can write a few of them.As you guess I can't know most of them ;D.
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Post by wolferin on Jun 28, 2009 22:11:01 GMT 2
Other Turkish Instruments?I can write a few of them.As you guess I can't know most of them ;D. On the previous page I wrote about saz - it is a very good soundind instrument, traditional for Turkey and Persia.
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Post by Esteban on Jun 28, 2009 23:07:02 GMT 2
I couldn't read that part about saz in your message.It seems as if I didn't write a new thing .I apologize.
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Post by strujka on Jun 29, 2009 1:02:11 GMT 2
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Post by MetalTherapy on Jun 29, 2009 12:09:38 GMT 2
Wow, strujka, you must be Bulgarian
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Post by strujka on Jun 29, 2009 16:22:24 GMT 2
Yep, I am And that's off-topic ;]
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Post by aradia on Nov 19, 2009 6:02:43 GMT 2
Hey Anwend, I just wanted to peep my head in and say that I am a player of the mountain Dulcimer, as well as the harp, and a little banjo. I grew up in the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina, and the Mountain Dulcimer is a sound that is very familiar there still! There is also another folk music tradition that is close to my roots, it is the American Folk singing tradition of Sacred Harp singing, or "shape note" singing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_HarpCheers&Beers!
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