Kumiodori dramas recount local historical events or legends, accompanied by a traditional three-stringed instrument.

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It's a collection of songs for voice and lute a stringed instrument that was popular in the 16th century.

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They include the remains of what archaeologists believe to be the earliest stringed instrument to be found so far in western Europe.

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There are several performance stages for Chinese opera and music, which have so far included concerts featuring the guqin, a stringed instrument favored by Confucius.

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"The Taliban destroyed all my instruments and hanged some of them from trees, " said Ustad Amruden, a player of dilruba, a traditional Afghan stringed instrument.

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The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.

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Characterized by the accompaniment of the ''saz, '' a stringed musical instrument, the classical repertoire includes 200 songs, 150 literary-musical compositions known as ''dastans, '' nearly 2, 000 poems in different traditional poetic forms and numerous stories.

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