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Arabic musical instruments

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Arabic musical instruments are instruments developed and mainly used by people from the arab world. Usage of these instruments, often more than a thousand years old, were once limited to the region's traditional and contemporary music, but today they are commonly used in world music and popular music from all around the world. Like most instruments they are broadly classified into three categories, string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion instruments.

Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, [[Jerusalem

Chordophones

Plucked lutes

Oud
Qanbūs
Buzuq
Awtar
Lutar
Sintir

Zithers

Qanun
Iraqi Santur

Bowed lutes

Jawzah
Guembri
Kamancheh
Rebab
Pontic lyra (Kemençe)

Lyres

Simsimiyya
Kissar
Tanbūra
Jewish Lyre

Aerophones

Flutes

Ney
Kawalah
Salamiyah
Minjayrah
Shababah
Shakuli
Furayrah
Kasab

Reed instruments

Mizmar
Khalul (Gulfian Mizmar)
Rhaita
Arghul
Zumarah bi suwan
Maqrunah
Mijwiz
Haban (Gulfian Bagpipe)
Jirbah (East Tunisian Bagpipe)
Mizwad (West Tunisian Bagpipe)
Zughra (Moroccan Bagpipe)
Saksifun (Arabic Saxophone)

Trumpets

Nafir

Percussion instruments

Drums and frame drums

Riq
Daf
Bendir
Dumbaki (Darbuka)
Duhulah
Drinjah
Bass Drinjah
Khishbah
Kasurah
Tabl Tsjikangha
Tabl Masanduw
Tabl Bib
Taarija
Tar
Tar Barashim (Shake Tar)
Tar Mirjaf (Low Tar)
Tar Saghul (High Tar)
Katim
Mirwas
Zir (Naqarah)
Qas'ah
Tbilat
Tabl Bahri (Khamari & Laauwb)
Tabl Hajir (Khamari & Laauwb)
Tabl Nasayfi (Khamari & Laauwb)
Al Ras
Mazhar

Other percussion

Shakhshikhah (Sistrum)
Sajat
Turah (Egyptian Sajat)
Twaysat (Gulf Sajat)
Krakeb
Hawan
Yahalah/Jahalah (Clay jug)
Manjur
Mihbaj
Maalaqa
Safqa (Arabic hand clap)

References

(17 March 2011). "The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music". Routledge.

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