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      <url>http://marvin.ecc.cc.mo.us/~almir/pjesme/sevdah/instruments.html</url>
      <title>Bosnian Traditional Instruments</title>
      <desc>Information about traditional instruments of Bosnia, including useful information about the saz and the zurna which were brought to the region from Turkey after the Ottoman conquest in the 1400's.</desc>
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      <url>http://www.maya.com/local/senn/rhythm.html</url>
      <title>Jas's Dumbek Rhythms</title>
      <desc>Rhythm instruction for musicians who play the dumbek (Middle Eastern drum).  Includes technique information, history about the rhythms, etc. Excellent resource for those learning to play the Arabic tabla.</desc>
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      <url>http://www.crosswinds.net/~rwalla/drum/rhythms.html</url>
      <title>Kamuran's Doumbek Rhythm Guide</title>
      <desc>Notation and difficulty ratings for over 90 drumming rhythms for doumbek and related instruments (over 300 including variations); guide on making specific drum sounds; nine supplemental pages group rhythms by count length; links, site reviews.</desc>
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   <item id="186618-1006096844" type="url">
      <url>http://www.slip.net/~bvaughan/Drums.html</url>
      <title>Middle Eastern Drum</title>
      <desc>This section of Bill Vaughan's personal home page contains a list of Middle Eastern drum rhythms with a brief description of what each is used for.  It also contains a glossary with a list of the names of several instruments.</desc>
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      <url>http://www.geocities.com/tomzara/tai.htm</url>
      <title>Traditional Armenian Folk Instruments</title>
      <desc>Pictures and audio clips of traditional Armenian folk instruments (Zurna, Kemancha, Sring, tar).</desc>
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      <url>http://www.fromnorway.net/yaylas/zurna/zurna_faq.htm</url>
      <title>Zurna FAQ</title>
      <desc>Frequently asked questions about the open air wind   instrument for the folk music and archaic military music of Türkiye (TR), by Satilmis Yayla.</desc>
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