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STRINGS, FLUTES & TRUMPETS VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD902 buy button
Recordings by Jean Jenkins & Paul Rovsing Olsen

The stringed instruments include the Pakistani saroz, Iraqi qanun, Jordanian rabab and Turkish kemence. The flutes and trumpets embrace the widely found nay and duduk and other instruments, heard solo, in duets and groups and accompanying singers.

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The Music In the World Of Islam series, TSCD901-903, is drawn from field-recordings by the ethnomusicologists Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen. They illustrate Islamic musical traditions across a vast landscape: 'Bedouins and nomads, farmers on the banks of the Nile, or in the Hindukush Mountains of Afghanistan or the High Atlas of Morocco or the fertile valleys of Pakistan and India, Turkish fishermen on the Black Sea coast and Malay and Javanese along the East China Sea or pearl divers on the gulf which divides Arabia from Iran, as well as the inhabitants of the great and ancient cities of Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Fez and Istanbul'.

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