This evening we got a pretty heavy dose of traditional Turkish music (on stringed instruments, no less!) at a kind of covert Sufi prayer meeting that we attended (it's covert in that it's described as a music store/museum in which they play traditional cultural music. It's not in any way quiet or well-hidden, really... but another post on that later tonight). Knowing that one member of my family would have loved to have been there, I took lots of video and audio recordings of the music. Unfortunately uploading any of them would take forever, so for now we'll look at still images.
According to William a lot of the instruments you see on the walls here were effectively extinct. The owners of the museum did their best to build them anew based on drawings and descriptions from days of yore. Cool stuff.
1 comment:
Thanks, Kevin! I can't wait to hear some names for these instruments and what they sound like! They look a lot like the rebaba from Cairo. So, if they're effectively extinct, are they valuable?
love,
Mom
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