Tar, the oldest musical instrument?
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Topic: Tar, the oldest musical instrument?
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Subject: Tar, the oldest musical instrument?
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 11:50
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As you can read http://www.iranyellowpages.net/en/about_iran/Culture/other/iranian_music.shtm - here , Tar is the most popular musical instrument of Iran, which in Persian means string. It is a string instrument with a pear-shaped body and six strings.
Is it the oldest musical instrument? ------------- 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 12:12
IIRC archaeologists have found a 20.000 year old flute in Africa. But the tar is probably the oldest musical instument with strings. ------------- |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 12:53
They've found Neandathal flutes somewhere that are some 3 times that old. -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: TJK
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 13:00
Why this topis is in the Moderators Room ? 
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 13:07
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lol because other forums were locked! -------------
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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 13:53
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Theres a tale that Gypsies bought the Guitar to Spain, complementing
the string instruments that already existed there, and the 'Gypsies'
(if we assume this means the Roma, for it could also refer to other
traveling groups) passed though Iran on their way to Europe.
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 06-Oct-2004 at 23:00
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'Tis an evil time when the moderators hide general discussion topics from us common peons. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: ihsan
Date Posted: 09-Oct-2004 at 05:47
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Guitar was invented by Andalusian Arabs, it's real name is Al Kitāre. ------------- [IMG]http://img50.exs.cx/img50/6148/ger3.jpg"> Qaghan of the Vast Steppes http://steppes.proboards23.com - Steppes History Forum |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 14-Jun-2012 at 19:33
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Arab contribution to Spanish music: http://www.syriatoday.ca/salloum-spanish.htm%20 - http://www.syriatoday.ca/salloum-spanish.htm ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 15-Jun-2012 at 07:03
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The human voice, or percussion sounds like clapping...etc... could be classed as some instruments pre-dating any others. ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 15-Jun-2012 at 08:09
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42,000 year old bone flutes and whistles. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/oldest-musical-instruments-are-even-older-than-first-thought.html - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/oldest-musical-instruments-are-even-older-than-first-thought.html ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |