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MADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS |
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KEMENCE | KEMENCE | BAGLAMA | NEVUD | BUZUKI | PIANOLIN | | | | | | | |
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is transferred to the West by the Arabs after the conquest of Spain.
As for the western musicologists, French version of LUTH comes from
an Arabic word EL- OUD. Many kinds of Lavta can be seen in today's
Europe. The lute is known as lut in Arabic, luth in French, laute
in German, luito in Italian, and port laud in Spanish. In Anicent
Rome and Greece the name of its primitive form was Tesdudo and Chelys.
And it was called lavta by the Ottomans. The lute has a sound characteristic
which is between that of the oud and the tambur. When used with
a plectrum made of tortoise shell and when the frets are well-used,
a sound which is very similar to the tanbur can be obtained. It
is this feature which constitutes an obstacle to the use of the
lute. The existence of the oud and the tanbur together in a concert,
eliminated the need of using another instrument which has a similar
sound. Another obstacle is that the interval between the strings
is a pentachord This fact necessitates the use of advanced tension
techniques in transposition. As a result, the difficulty of playing,
prevents the instrument from being used in concerts
The early forms of Lavta have been traced in Sumerians, old Egypt,
Assyrians and Babilfians. Lavta which was developed by Arabs in
the 11th Century, was carried to Europe through Endulus in the 15th
century and eventually, it lived its golden epoch in the 16th and
17th centuries. It was played both by a folk poet and also by some
important personalities too.
While Western Lavtas have 6 to 24 strings on them, the Turkish ones,
like in Tanbur, have 3 pairs and one single strings (Totally 7 strings).
It resembles Lute and it is made exactly with the same materials
used in Lute production.
The slight difference from the lute is that it has a narrower body,
a longer handle with frets like in tambour. It has got the structural
characteristic lute. The strings are catgut and silk wound and tuned
like
Alto key forms.
1st String to LA
2nd String to RE
3rd String to SOL
4th String to DO
It was played with a special plectrum like that of the lute. Lavta
which was long forgetten, is becoming rather popular recently. It
was played by great musicians like Tanburi Cemil Bey. Lavta has
a 2, 5-3 Octave sound range.
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