Persian musical instruments

Orchestral • Tar • Setar • Kamancheh • Ghaychak • Barbat • Chang (instrument)/Angular harp • Santoor • Qānūn • Shurangiz Safavid-style portrait, female musician plays a tar.jpg|Tar Woman with a setar, Safavid Iran, Isfahan (ca. 1600-1610).jpg|Setar, ca. 1610 A court musician playing the kemanche, painting by Abul Qasim, Qajar Iran.jpg|Kamancheh Woman playing a santur, Qajar Iran, artist named Ahmad.jpg|Woman playing a santur, 19th century File:Ralamb-89.jpg|Qanun, from Rålamb Costume Book, 1657 Folklore • Dotar • Tanbur • Tar (Azerbaijani instrument) • Divan (diwan or divan sazı, type of Bağlama) • Sallaneh • Sorahi • Suroz • Rubab (instrument) Jean-Paul Flandrin - Odalisque with Slave - cropped to show dutar.jpg|Dotar (2 courses of strings) == Wind instruments ==

Orchestral • Ney Folklores • Balaban (instrument) • Donali • Doudouk • Dozaleh • Garmon • Karna • Ney-anbān • Sorna Historical • Nafir File:Qajar Iran scene with women playing ney, tar and dancing.jpg|19th century C.E. Qajar Iran scene with women playing ney (flute), tar (lute) and dancing. ==Percussion instruments==

While Arabic and Persian are separate languages, to a great extent the cultures intermixed during and after the Muslim conquest of Persia. Arabic became the lingua franca from the Middle East to the edge of China and into India, much as Latin was in Europe. As a result, the list below may contain Arab words that don't belong, but may also include words shared by both languages. An example is daf (دف), for which the Arab word is also daf or duff (plural dofuf). Similarly, conquests and cultural intermixing have made Turkish words available, such as kudum. File:Persian woman playing the Daf, from a painting on the walls of Chehel-sotoon palace, Isfahan, 17th century.jpg|Persian woman playing the Daf, from a painting on the walls of Chehel Sotoun Palace, Isfahan, 17th century File:Persian miniature of Woman with Daf in Qajar Iran, 19th century.jpg|Persian miniature of Woman with frame drum in Qajar Iran, 19th century. Possibly a daf; the red and white circles are links of chain attached to the inner edge of the drum. File: Dancing girl percian hermitage.jpg|Woman playing Kastan (کاستانیـِت), or possibly ghashoghak or zills. File:Woman with Zarb drum, Qajar Iran,19th century.jpg|Woman with Zarb drum, Qajar Iran, 19th century File:Woman playing drums, Qajar Iran, 19th century.jpg|Woman playing drums, Qajar Iran, 19th century File:Woman playing Dayereh-zangi (دایره‌زنگی) or tambourine, ca 1820.jpg|Woman playing Dayereh-zangi (دایره‌زنگی) or tambourine, ca 1820 Membranophones Idiophones Shaken idiophones Lamellophones ==Images from Turkestan==

These images are from the Russian Turkestan, circa 1865-1872, an area in which Persian, Turkish, Arab/Islamic and Mongol peoples conquered and settled over the ages. When the Russians conquered, both Turkish and Persian languages were being spoken. The images of musical instruments show the mixing of cultures; some such as the tanbur appear normal for Persian culture. But there are variations, such as a kamanche that appears to be a bowed tanbur, and the kauz or kobyz, which is a Turkish word for an instrument that is closely related to the Ghaychak, a Persian instrument. File:Pastimes of Central Asians. Musicians. A Man Playing a Surnay, a Small Flute-like Instrument WDL10822.png|Russian Turkestan, about 1872. Dozaleh or "koshnai" File:Dayra player.jpeg|Dayra File:Troupe of Musicians. A Woman Holding a Dayra, or Frame Drum WDL11114.png|Dayereh File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. A Man Playing a Koshnai, a Clarinet-like Instrument WDL10768.png|Sorna. File:Pastimes of Central Asians. Musicians. A Man Playing a Karnay, a Long-necked Trumpet-like Instrument WDL10827.png|Karnay File:Pastimes of Central Asians. A Musician Playing a Kauz, a Small Two-Stringed Instrument with a Bow WDL10823.png|Kauz or Kobyz. Also spelled qobuz. File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. A Man Playing a Nagara, a Double-Headed Folk Drum WDL10772.png|Nagara File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. A Man Playing a Dutar, a Long-Necked Fretted Lute WDL10767.png|Dutar File:Pastimes of Central Asians. A Musician Playing a Gydzhak, a Stringed Instrument WDL10821.png|Gydzhak. Instrument in the Kamanche tradition. Not a Ghaychak; the name variation applied to two different fiddles. File:Pastimes of Central Asians. A Musician Playing a Nai, a Flute-like Instrument WDL10825.png|The nai in Turkestan was side-blown, like the flutes in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Karakalpakstan. File:Pastimes of Central Asians. A Musician Playing a Rubab, a Fretted Lute-like Instrument WDL10826.png|Rubab File:Pastimes of Central Asians. A Musician Playing a Tambur, a Long-necked Stringed Instrument WDL10828.png|Tanbur File:Pastimes of Central Asians. Musicians. A Man Practicing the Kamancha, a Long-necked Stringed Instrument WDL10824.png|The "Mashki" Kamanche, possibly related to the sato File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. Various Musical Instruments, Including a Koshnai WDL10771.png|from left: nagaras, sorna, bülban, ghoshmeh, tas File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. Various Musical Instruments, Including a Dutar, a Long-Necked Fretted Lute WDL10769.png|From left: dutar, kauz or kobyz, frame drum with drumstick, karnay, ney (horizontal variation, above drum). File:Musical Instruments and Musicians. Stringed Instruments and a Frame Drum WDL10770.png|From left: dutar, rubab, daf (above rubab), gydzhak, mashki kamanche. File:Syr Darya Oblast. City of Tashkent and the Types of People Seen on Its Streets. A Dervish Playing an Instrument WDL10952.png|Ney, end-blown flute File:Women's Customs Among the Tajiks- Fortune-Telling WDL2516.png|Tajik women, "fortune telling", one with a daf File:Women's Customs among the Tajiks. Group of Young Women, Sitting Together with Their Arms around Each Other and Their Eyes Closed. One Woman Holds a Drum WDL11183.png|Tajik women, one daf File:Folk Festival at Kurban Bayram in Tashkent. Pastimes at the Tea Stand WDL10776.png| File:Troupe of Musicians. Group of Musicians and a Batcha, or Dancing Boy WDL11112.png|From left: bülban, nagaras, sorna, sorna, daf, tas, qairaqs. == Others ==

The electronic keyboard is a popular western instrument. There are numerous native musical instruments used in folk music. == See also ==