turkish kanun

Wonderful kanun

sample play: taqsim（wma 816KB）

sample play: rast（mp3 1,188KB）

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Kanun is thought to be the origin of zitar in eastern Europe, chinise harp, kayagum in Korea, and Koto harp in Japan. Turkish kanun has twenty-five courses of strings, three string each in unison.

beautiful curvings
differential tuning bridges

This harp should be called art itself. Please, look at these little bridges which enables to tune up and down notes in micro level.

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