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Keywords: oboe, egypt, loud, reed, surnay

A reeded instrument used in Turkey (shawm) and Egypt(Mizmar) that looks like a wooden clarinet.

davina.us

A wind instrument that resembles the oboe.

bellytwist.com

Small, high-pitched double reed woodwind. It is the predecessor of the oboe.

venusbellydance.com

Double-reed instrument, ancestor of the oboe. Can sound pretty awful to Western ears.

mpvdolls.com

a double reed instrument of Egypt

orientaldancer.net

A double-reed instrument made of a flared wooden pipe. It is played throughout Asia minor, the Middle-East and North Africa. A mizmar is the Egyptian variant. Its sound is somewhat harsher and brassier sounding than a European oboe, and it is approximately as loud as a trumpet. This is an outdoor instrument.

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(mizz mar) – musical instrument that produces a loud, blaring sound.

khaalida.com

In Arabic music, a mizmar is any single or double reed wind instrument. In Egypt mizmar usually refers to a surnay.

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