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HOARE, Oliver SKU: 19351

Stock No. 19351

Authors: Oliver, HOARE

London : Oliver Hoare, 2005

Musical Instruments from Islamic Lands

Original brown cloth in the pictorial dust-jacket. Folio. 118 pages. Lavishly illustrated with full-page colour photographs of 165 musical instruments from mainly Turkey and the Balkans though also Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan and other parts of middle Asia. Some of the instruments featured include the kermanche, the oud, the levta, the tanbur, the dombra, the rebab, and the sitar. Photographs printed on high quality, coated paper, each accompanied by a descriptive text and details of place of origin.