Engineering:Arabic musical instruments

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Arabic musical instruments are instruments developed and mainly used by people from the arab world. Usage of these instruments, often more than a thousand years old, were once limited to the region's traditional and contemporary music, but today they are commonly used in world music and popular music from all around the world. Like most instruments they are broadly classified into three categories, string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion instruments.

Drawing of Qanun player in 1859, Jerusalem
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

  • Simsimiyya
  • Kissar
  • Tanbūra
  • Jewish Lyre

Aerophones

Flutes

  • Ney
  • Kawalah
  • Salamiyah
  • Minjayrah
  • Shababah
  • Shakuli
  • Furayrah
  • Kasab

Reed instruments

  • Mizmar
  • Khalul (Gulfian Mizmar)
  • Rhaita
  • Arghul
  • Zumarah bi suwan
  • Maqrunah
  • Mijwiz
  • Haban (Gulfian Bagpipe)
  • Jirbah (East Tunisian Bagpipe)
  • Mizwad (West Tunisian Bagpipe)
  • Zughra (Moroccan Bagpipe)
  • Saksifun (Arabic Saxophone)

Trumpets

  • Nafir

Percussion instruments

Drums and frame drums

thumb

  • Riq
  • Daf
  • Bendir
  • Dumbaki (Darbuka)
  • Duhulah
  • Drinjah
  • Bass Drinjah
  • Khishbah
  • Kasurah
  • Tabl Tsjikangha
  • Tabl Masanduw
  • Tabl Bib
  • Taarija
  • Tar
  • Tar Barashim (Shake Tar)
  • Tar Mirjaf (Low Tar)
  • Tar Saghul (High Tar)
  • Katim
  • Mirwas
  • Zir (Naqarah)
  • Qas'ah
  • Tbilat
  • Tabl Bahri (Khamari & Laauwb)
  • Tabl Hajir (Khamari & Laauwb)
  • Tabl Nasayfi (Khamari & Laauwb)
  • Al Ras
  • Mazhar

Other percussion

  • Shakhshikhah (Sistrum)
  • Sajat
  • Turah (Egyptian Sajat)
  • Twaysat (Gulf Sajat)
  • Krakeb
  • Hawan
  • Yahalah/Jahalah (Clay jug)
  • Manjur
  • Mihbaj
  • Maalaqa
  • Safqa (Arabic hand clap)

References

  1. ↑ Miller, Terry; Williams, Sean (17 March 2011) (in en). The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music. Routledge. p. 403. ISBN 978-1-135-90154-7. https://www.google.com.ph/books/edition/The_Garland_Handbook_of_Southeast_Asian/Z8OSAgAAQBAJ?hl=en. Retrieved 1 November 2025. 

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