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Narī hambān (gender unknown)

original: ? (Arabic (Iraq))

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Bagpipe (unknown type)

Identical types: 98

Briefly described in Lakini Kaba, with a sketch showing a bag with a blowpipe and a chanter with 6 fingerholes only; Northeastern Kurdish regions Sulaymaniyah and Erbil (and, perhaps, regions Halabja [in Hassan spelt "Halabtscha"], Hawraman [NE of Halabja], Rania, and in the Sha(h)razur district [in Hassan erroneously spelt "Shahrazun"] [SSE of Sulaymaniyah]); According to one of Hassan’s informants the instrument had "disappeared by 1980, but was recently still used by Zaidakia tribes in the Mosul district".

Aneez, Balabān, Djirba, Jirba, Ḳirba, Qirba


Sources

Hassan, Schéhérazade Qassim: Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur rôle dans la société traditionnelle. Paris, 1980, p.58 (»Lakini Kaba).

Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.10.

Web

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