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 | TAMBOUR |
 Tambour is one of the few old musical instruments which its history
goes back to 6000 years ago. The tambour is the ancestor to most
long-necked, plucked stringed instruments. Its pear shaped belly
is
normally carved out of one piece of mulberry wood with a long neck
and fourteen gut frets. Some modern tambours are made of bent ribs
of mulberry wood. The sound board, 3-4 millimeters thick, is
also made of mulberry wood which has numerous small holes for better
resonance.
The tambour has a unique playing technique by which the strings are
strummed with the fingers of the right hand to produce a very full
and even tremolo called shorr (literally meaning the pouring of
water).
This technique along with various kinds of plucking, usually with
the index and pinky fingers, enables the musicians to produce different
effects and various rhythmic accentuations which imitate the natural
sounds of their environment such as a running stream, a water fall,
a bird chirping or a horses' gallop, all translated into musical
rhythms and sounds.
 Dr. Cengiz Sarıkuş learned the method to make tambour from Agop Ohanyan.He
has nearly 20 antic tambour in his workshop.One of them is belong
to the period of Sultan Mahmut II and was made in 1814.
Dr. Cengiz Sarıkuş's style of making tambour is exactly the same of traditional
Ottoman style. It has a deep, pear-shaped body, a fretted neck,
and 2 to 10 double courses of metal strings fastened with front
and side tuning pegs without a pegbox.His tambours are made of mulberry
wood, pallisander, amazakoue and spruce.
His tambours .made of aged cedar and tremolo,have been collected
by French and British collectors and added their premium collections.
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