by mreichstadt | Nov 26, 2023 | Extra-européens-en
DOTAR (Model n°2) Iran, Khorasan province. Afghanistan, Herat province. 20th century. This long-necked lute is comparable to the previous one and takes on its characteristics. It is played in the east of Iranian Khorràssàn and more particularly around the town...
by mreichstadt | Nov 26, 2023 | Extra-européens-en
DOTAR (Model n°3) Iran, Khorasan province. Afghanistan, Herat province. 20th century. This is the third model of long-necked lute whose brief description we give here: The classically crafted body, hollowed out of a block of mulberry, is recognizable by the...
by mreichstadt | Nov 26, 2023 | Extra-européens-en
TANBUR Central Asia: Uzbekistan – Tajikistan. 20th century. The monoxyl body is made of mulberry, bordered with a marquetry of stylized flowers. The soundboard, also made of mulberry, is pierced with resonance holes. The neck, in green oak, is equipped with 25...
by mreichstadt | Nov 26, 2023 | Extra-européens-en
DOTAR Afghanistan, 20th century. Long-necked lute from the Harati region, (1) around the town of Harat or Herat, in the west of the country not far from Iran and Turkmenistan. The dotar is a long-necked lute from the tanbur family, whose name (dotàr, dutar,...
by mreichstadt | Nov 26, 2023 | Extra-européens-en
IMZAD Tuareg country, 19th – 20th century. Single-string Tuareg fiddle whose sound box is made from a gourd over which goat skin is stretched. The rope is made of a strand of horsehair, and the arch of a simple arched branch. The use of the instrument is...
