The Turkish qanun is a flat, trapezoidal-shaped instrument. It has 26 courses of strings, with about three strings per course. This gives a total of 78 strings made from nylon, gut, or metal.

A bold new cross-cultural music collaboration between traditional musicians from Northern Ireland and Iraq will take to the stage at the Cairde Festival in Sligo on Friday night.The project, titled ...

The qanun is a traditional Middle Eastern stringed instrument. It has a long history, possibly descended from the ancient Egyptian harp, and is related to the psaltery, dulcimer and zither.

A bold new cross-cultural music collaboration between traditional musicians from Derry and Iraq is set to take to the stage ...

Instead his parents thought he might like playing the qanun. A plucked-string instrument that rests in the performer’s lap, the qanun has a bright tone and a high pitch, traits that make it ...

I’m looking forward to introducing the Qanun instrument in a different and modern way,” she said. Debal added it was “extremely refreshing to see that emerging musicians are not only being ...

SYRIAN musician Maya Youssef is a virtuoso on the qanun, the 78-string plucked zither at the heart of Arabic music. ... "When I was nine, it was time to choose an instrument.

Dubbed the Queen of the Qanun, Maya Youssef is a composer and virtuoso of the Syrian instrument. The qanun is typically played by men, but Maya broke the mould as a young musician growing up in ...

A self-taught Moroccan artist was able to use the Covid-19 pandemic to create touchable paintings for the blind, allowing them to feel the buttons and agates used to make the art.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Hoping to draw tourists from the Kurdistan Region to her native country of Tunisia, musician and singer Malek Cochtoben recently came to Erbil with her qanun instrument ...

Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese composer, singer and innovator on his instrument, the lute-like oud. Khalife performed his first concerts amid the rubble of bombed-out buildings in Beirut during ...