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KAMANCHE
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Kamanche belongs to the
Chordophones category of instruments, and in
more details to Bowed Stringed Instruments or it can be said Kamanche is a Persian Spike Fiddle. The word Kamanche means in
Persian language a small bow. Kamanche is played in many different
cultures and regions, like in Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Turkey,...and with different pronunciations and different names,
like Kamanche or Kamancheh or Kamantche in Iran, Kamancha or
Kamantcha in Azerbaijan, Kemanche or Kemancha or Kemantcha in
Armenia, Kabak Kemane in Turkey, Ghijak (Gijak, Gidzhak,...) in
Central Asia, Rababa in Arab countries.... Kamanche is played both
in classical and folk Music.
Kamanche Strings
Strings were first
made of gut or silk. Modern strings may be gut, solid steel,
stranded steel, or various synthetic materials, wound with
various metals. Kamanche strings are produced in the countries,
in which Kamanche is played, but the quality of these strings
are not good enough, that is why many Kamanche players try to
use Violin or Viola strings for Kamanche. Kamanche players will
usually change a string when it no longer plays true or when it
loses the desired tone. We count the strings from the highest
tone to the lowest tone. Kamanche has mainly four strings at the
present time, but there are some kinds of Kamanche that they
have three strings and there were at the past time some kinds of
Kamanche with two until six strings.
Kamanche Tuning
If we put Diese
(sharp) next to a note, the note will become half note higher,
Bemol (flat), half tone lower, Sori, 1/4 tone higher and Koron
1/4 tone lower. The signs and definitions that we use here, are
only to show the exact notes that we play in the mentioned
musical culture. For example when we use Mi Diese, we do not
mean the note, that is half tone higher than Mi, but we mean the
note between Re and Mi Koron. It means the usage and function of
the signs are not exactly like the definitions of the signs. We
count the strings from higher to lower. The most usual tunings
are Re La Re La and Re Sol Re Sol.
Hossein Eemailzade
He is the son of
Esmail Khan, the Kamanche player of Ghajar era. It is famous
that he was in playing the Kamanche as skillful as Mirza
Hosseingholi in playing the Persian Tar. He was the soloist of
Darvish Khan's and Aref Ghazvini's concerts. Thanks to Pooyan
Nassehpoor for preparing this recording.
Bagher Rameshgar
Bagher Khan Rameshgar a Kamanche player of Ghajar era.
Special about him is his Kamanche with six pegs. He learned
Kamanche from Musa Kashi and Radif (repertoire of Persian
classical music) from Mirza Hosseingholi. He traveled to Paris,
London and Tbilisi for recording music.
Bayaz Amiratayi
Bayaz Amiratai
(1955-) an Iranian Kamanche maker. He became familiar in 1971
with Ebrahim Ghanbari Mehr, a multi-instrument maker and learned
from him how to make different musical instruments, but he makes
mainly Kamanche.
Arif Asadullayev
He is a skillful
Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha) player and chief teacher of Baku
Musical Academy. He has also notated the repertoire of
Azerbaijani classical music (Mugham) for Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha).
Shafiga Eyvazova
Shafiga Eyvazova (1947-) an Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha) player,
professor of Baku Musical Academy and Arif Asadullayev’s wife.
She has accompanied singers like Arif Babayev and performed as
Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha) soloist with Tekfen Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Adalat Vazirov
Azeri Kamanche Solo
Monsieur
Haig
Unfortunately we
do not know so much about his biography, but fortunately we have
some recordings of his Kamanche playing. He is an Armenian
Kamanche player from Iran and a friend of Sasha Tarkhanian, the
Caucasian or Armenian Tar player. You can listen here to his
recording, that we guess it has been recorded in 1930’s. Thanks
to Pooyan Nassehpoor for preparing this recording.
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