"Alexandre Sènou Adandé" Ethnographic Museum
(Benin)

The "Alexandre Dumas" School of Foreign Languages
(Bulgaria)

Burkina Faso Cultural Heritage Branch
(Burkina Faso)

The Museum of Art and Archeology of the University of Antananarivo
(Madagascar)

National Museum of Mali
(Mali)

St. Boniface Museum
(Manitoba, Canada)

Andalusian Study and Research Centre
(Morocco)

Musée acadien de l'Université de Moncton
(New Brunswick, Canada)

World Music Research Laboratory
(Quebec, Canada)

Canadian Museum of Civilization
(Quebec, Canada)

Museum of the Romanian Peasant
(Romania)

The Arab and Mediterranean Music Centre
(Tunisia)
THE NAY

Nay
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Note Book
Nay
Wood, copper
47.5 x 2 cm
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canada


This flute is well known throughout the worldespecially in Middle East. It comprisesa tube with mouthpiece formed by upper opening of tube. played blowing into through mouth. Sometimes very weaksoft sound produced nose. can have any number fingerholes.

In Lebanon, Syria or Egypt, a variety of other musical instruments can accompany the nay including the ud (lute), the qanun (zither), the darbuka (pot drums) and the naqqara (kettledrums). This particular group of instruments is called a takht. It often accompanies traditional dances like the baladi.