minstrel: cool instruments

[Dustin]

on 5/28/03 11:14 PM, Brett W. McCoy at bmccoy at chapelperilous.net wrote:

> Where does your group play?  Middle Eastern music is a big interest of mine.

We play in the Oklahoma City, but most of our gigs have been private
(weddings or parties), but we have played a few times at local mediteranian
restaraunts. I have only been in the band for over six months and I mostly
play riq and frame drum. The leader of the group (Neal) mainly plays the
Oud, but also a little bit of Saz and is learning to play the Tar (oh, and
he plays a reed instrument called a "Da-duk"). We have a fiddle player, when
he is in the state, and a full time male singer from Morocco (a Morocan
Okie) and a part time female singer from Israel. The name of the band is
called "Import" (the name seems to be an inside joke).

I was trying to get Neal to come to KWDMS to play for the Middle-Eastern
Dancers, but he will be in New Mexico camping (also, there was an issue of
money and him not being in the SCA, ect.).

The dumbec (or what ever other names it is called) is a period instrument.
There is a plate from the Cantiga de Santa Maria that had a painting of this
couple playing music together. The man was playing a horn instrument and the
woman was playing a dubec (or a drum that was bell shapped like a dumbec),
but it was held over her shoulder. That was from the 13th c. I saw it in a
book about women and music in history (I forgot the excact title).

Morgan