Arto - 8-4-2006 at 10:20 AM
Hi friends,
I have two tanbur books by Sadun Aksut and have been playing some music from them, now that I have an oud (thanks Mr Eraydin!) that I can play Eastern
scales on. (I don´t own a tanbur... yet...) I´d like to ask some words from basic instruction section. I understand it´s probably not useful
copying tanbur technique on oud, but it would be nice to know the meaning...
Probably "ust mizrap vurusu" using V sign is downstroke, and "alt mizrap vurusu" upstroke. But that does mean
- cift mizrap vurusu (a sign resembling N)
- uclu mizrap vurusu (a sign resembling W)?
PS: It drives me crazy I have these books, some other Turkish classical music books can by found in a local library, and I have Turkish CDs with
extensive liner notes, and I can´t read these! Altavista babelfish doesn´t translate Turkish. Is there any free Turkish/English dictionary in the
web?
thanks, Arto
al-Halabi - 8-4-2006 at 11:48 AM
Yes, "ust mizrap vurusu" means downstroke and "alt mizrap vurusu" means upstroke.
"Cift mizrap vurusu" refers to a double stroke, meaning a quick succession of a downsroke and an upstroke.
"Uclu mizrap vurusu" is a triple stroke, played with quick succession of down-up-down strokes.