Kemane

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Kemane is a string instrument in various designs that is played in the Turkish musical tradition:

  • Kabak-Kemane is a three-stringed spiked fiddle with a skin-covered calabash resonator
  • Kemençe are the names of two Turkish bowed box neck lutes:
    • Karadeniz kemençesi , slender boat-shaped sounds of folk music from the eastern Turkish Black Sea coast
    • Fasıl kemençesi , also armudi kemençe , has a pear-shaped body of classical Turkish music