Ney-anbān

Ney anban

Other names	نی انبان
Classification	Bagpipe
Related instruments
Jirba

Ney-anbān (Persian: نی انبان , numerous Latin spellings), is a type of bagpipe which is popular in southern Iran, specially around Bushehr. The term ney-anban literally means "bag pipe",^[1] but more specifically can refer to a type of droneless double-chantered bagpipes played in Southern Iran. This is similar to the Bahrainian jirba played by ethnic Iranians in the Persian Gulf islands.

Music

In Bushehr, the ney-anban is used to accompany sarva, the singing of free-metre couplets.^[2]

Orthography

Latin renderings of the name of this pipe include: ney-hanbān, ney-anbun, ney ammbooni, nai-ambana hanbun, hanbuneh.

External links

• Ney-anbān, by Saeid Shanbezadeh

References

1. ^ Edward Balfour (1873). Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific: products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures. Scottish and Adelphi Presses. pp. 23–. http://books.google.com/books?id=qSAAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA23. Retrieved 25 August 2011.  - Nai, signifies a reed, pipe, &c, and Anban or Anbanah, a bag made of the skin taken entire otf a sheep. It is a musical instrument not often seen in Persia beyond the Garmsir (or "warm region") about Bushahr
2. ^ Ehsan Yar-Shater (1990). Encyclopaedia iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 572. http://books.google.com/books?id=lAcZAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 25 August 2011.