Arabic musical instruments
Appearance move to sidebar hideArabic musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion instruments. They evolved from ancient civilizations in the region.
Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem
Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe
Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya
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the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties
Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo
Chordophones
Plucked lutes
Zithers
Bowed lutes
Lyres
Aerophones
Flutes
Reed instruments
- Mizmar
- Khalul (Gulfian Mizmar)
- Ghayta
- Arghul
- Zumarah bi suwan
- Maqrunah
- Mijwiz
- Haban (Gulfian Bagpipe)
- Jirbah (East Tunisian Bagpipe)
- Mizwad (West Tunisian Bagpipe)
- Zughra (Moroccan Bagpipe)
- Saksifun (Arabic Saxophone)
Trumpets
Percussion instruments
Drums and frame drums
- Riq
- Daf
- Bendir
- Dumbaki
- 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)
- Krakebs
- Hawan
- Yahalah/Jahalah (Clay jug)
- Manjur
- Mihbaj
- Maalaqa
- Safqa (Arabic hand clap)
| Traditional musical instruments of Asia | |
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| Traditional Arabic musical instruments | |
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| Plucked lutes | |
| Zithers | |
| Bowed lutes | |
| Lyres | |
| Flutes | |
| Reed instruments | |
| Drums | |
| Other percussion | |