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Its tonal system divides an octave into 24 non-equal) intervals. Each tone has its own name (not repeated in the next octave) and is defined by its position relative to other tones - rather than absolute pitch. Pitch can deviate by as much as 1/4 from named pitch. Independence in pitch is possible because Arabic music does not use harmony - no chords to sound "sour" or "off."

The name of this percussion instrument - the derbukka - comes from the arab root verb "derb" which means "to beat". Hence the persian name of the instrument "zarb" as the z is pronounced somewhere between the z and the d. The player of a darabukka is called derebki.

The middle eastern oboe plays an important role in folk music from China to Morrocco. It's a double reed instrument called mizmar in Egypt, and named zurna in Turkey. In China the Uygur people used the surnai or surnay in their music and in Iran it's known under the name sorna or sornay which means literally "strong flute". The word nay means flute. According to other sources sorna simply means horn. The Nepalese version of the is in a cresent form and looks more like a horn. Another related instrument is the Indian shehnai which contains the same root "nai".

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The name Rembetika (also known as Rembetiko, Rebetika, and Rebetiko) is used to describe the musical styles of mainland Greece and the music of ... Rembetika was also initially a man's form of music. ...

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names for 'mbira' lamellophones, by region mangambeu (22 metal or 18 raffia lamellae), mbo nggo (8 raffia lamellae), mboton, timbrh - Cameroon; sanza (9-12), sanzi (9-12) - Cameroon and Central African Republic; kalimba, lukembe - Congo; fang (6), likembe, kisansi, lukembe (10 wooden lamellae), luba (4), mbanja (8), yombe (10), zande (7) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre); tom - Ethiopia; aprempensuah - Ghana; bonduma, gbelee, kongoma - Liberia; kalimba, malimba - Malawi; danda, chisanza (22), malimba (26), tomboji, utee - Mozambique; jidiga - Niger; agidigbo (5), akpata, sologun, ubo - Nigeria; mbila dza madeza (27), mbila tshipai (11-18) - Republic of South Africa; bundoma (9, 10), kondi (9), kongoma (3), kututen (9, 11) - Sierra Leone; afosangu - Sudan; chilimba (15), ilimba (36, 55, 66-72), malimba - Tanzania; kadongo/budongo (plural) (10, 14, 15, 17), lukeme - Uganda; kalimba (14), luvale (13) - Zambia; hera (26, 34), karimba (15, 17, 19), matepe (25, 29), mbira dza vadzimu (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27), mbira dza vaNdau (29, 30, 34), munyonga (47, 52, 56), ndimba (15, 17), njari (29, 36), nyonga nyonga (15), nyunga nyunga (15) - Zimbabwe.

Zeca Pagodinho (b. February 4, 1959, birth name Jessé Gomes da Silva Filho) is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode.

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Mansour Seck has been a leading figure in Dande Lenon, Baaba Maal's band, for many years, and performed on many of Baaba Maal's recordings. Seck has released disks under his own name, as well. Mansour Seck and Baba Maal come from the same town, Podor, in Northern Senegal.

The rebab (Arabic الرباب or رباب - "a bowed (instrument)") [1], also rebap, rabab, rebeb, rababah, or al-rababa) is a type of string instrument so named no later than the 8th century and spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and the Far East. The bowed variety often has a spike at the bottom to rest on the ground, and is thus called a spike fiddle in certain areas...

kamancheh, kamencheh, kamānche, kamāncha or qyamancha (Persian: کمانچه ), a Persian bowed stringed instrument related to the bowed rebab, historical ancestor of the kamancheh...The Turkish and Armenian kemenche or kemençe is a bowed string instrument with a very similar or identical name -- but it differs significantly in structure and sound from the Persian kamancheh.

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I'm working on getting some data on who these musicians are, what country they're from, what dialect of Arabic the singer's using, what mode/scale they're playing in, and what the names of their instruments are.

St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician whose style merges jazzy house music with acid jazz. Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool & The Gang are among Ludovic's early influences.

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