Kamanjah

Kamanjah

Infobox Instrument
name=(Kamanjah)
names=Kamanjah


classification=
*Bowed string instrument
range=
related=
* Rebec
* Kemenche
* Byzaanchy
* Rebab
* Gudok
* Gusle
* Gadulka
* Kamancheh
* Kobyz The "kamanjah" (Arabic: كمنجة; plural كمنجات, "kamanjāt"; pronounced "kamangah" in Egypt, and also known as "jose") is an Arab violin made from half a coconut and covered with sheep hide or fish skin). This instrument is played holding it in the lap, sitting on the floor cross-legged. One to four strings pass down a long, un-fretted neck and over a small, spherical, wooden body covered with skin (sheep hide or fish skin). It is one of the predecessor's of the medieval lute, and is part of the spike family of instruments (so named for the spike that originates from the bottom of the sound-box and props on the floor.).

The term "kamanjah" may also be used to refer to the violin.

ee also

*Rebab
*Kamancheh
*Kemenche

External link

*William McClure Thomson, (1860): " [http://books.google.com/books?id=S44XAAAAYAAJ The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land] " Vol II, p. 578.


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