How To Tune A Turkish Kanun

How To Tune A Turkish Kanun

Turkish kanun has an important place in Turkish music. Kanun instrument is a powerful instrument which is indispensable for a Turkish music ensemble. It is believed that kanun was introduced in Turkish music during the Ottoman Empire, in 19th century by a Syrian immigrant from Cairo. On the other hand, kanun has another recent story starting from 1876. It is told that there is a difference between the older type of kanun and the new type, the earliest examples of which were made by the Istanbul kanun instrument maker Mahmut Usta. The two types coexisted probably until the 1930s as per the registers of the Arab Music Congress at Cairo held in 1932. The characteristic of the newer type of kanun was the use of small brass levers situated on the left of the case close to the pegbox (which is also the player’s left). Those levers served to control the tension of the strings. There are five to nine levers for each three strings on Turkish kanun that can be rotated so that the intervals can be minutely adjusted. Therefore, levers provide that the full range of the keys is played. The introduction of these levers encouraged the construction of larger instruments.

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