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Arabic musical instruments

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Arabic musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and Percussions. They evolved from ancient civilizations in the region, and were enhanced to adapt with a broader general unified type of music.

Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem, Palestine
Traditional flute player from Iraqi folk troupe
Mizwad, a type of bagpipes played mostly in Tunisia and Libya
Mizmar ini Display
the Riqq is one of the instruments used only in the Egyptian and Arabic music, and in most of its varieties
Sagat in Khan El-Khalili, Cairo

Chordophones

Plucked lutes

Zithers

Bowed lutes

Lyres

Aerophones

Flutes

Reed instruments

Percussion instruments

Drums

Other percussion

Mashriq

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