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Kaba Zūrnā

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The Turkish Kaba Zūrnā, the large Zūrnā, is a woodwind instrument with a double reed. The body of this instrument is made of poplar wood and has seven front tone holes and a thumb hole. The characteristic fork insert, nâzik in Turkish, contains a reed holder with the mouthpiece. A shell disc serves as the lip disc. The three by three sound holes in the lower third of the body, also known as şeytan (German: Teufel) in Turkish, are framed with cobbler's eyelets for decoration. This instrument was built by a Roma living in Izmir and ended up in a private oboe collection in the 1970s. The Kaba Zūrnnā is one of the largest representatives of the Zūrnā family and was of great importance in the former Ottoman Empire, both in folklore and in a religious context.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 51,5 cm
Depth: 7,5 cm
Width: 7,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood , Metal , Plant fibre , Textile, Shell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII c 974

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Asia
    Turkey
  • Collecting
    who
    Christian Schneider (1942-09-08 - 2021-06-20) - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation, 2019
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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