different between kyamancha vs kamancheh

English

Noun

kyamancha (plural kyamanchas)

1. Alternative spelling of kamancheh
   • 1972, ?? ?? ??? ????????: ???????? ???? ???????:

     He recalled the heated discussions at the monastery and the monk who had insisted that the kyamancha and tar were native Armenian musical instruments, that modulation was typical of Armenian songs which were always soulful and mournful.

   • 1985, ???? ???????, ? ??????? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????? ?????:

     The kyamancha was invented in the eleventh century and at first had only three strings. A musician named Alexander Organyan invented a kyamancha with four strings, and his daughter, Sophia Sardaryan, played one of these instruments [...]

   • 1986, Music in the USSR:

     [...] combines in his works stylistically differing material such as ancient monodic forms, with free dodecaphony and sonoristic structures, and employs in his orchestra traditional instruments — the duduk, the zurna and the kyamancha.

English

Alternative forms

• kamencheh
• kam?nche
• kam?ncha, kamancha
• kemancha
• kemenche (from Turkish)
• kyamancha

Etymology

From Persian ??????? (kamân?e).

Noun

kamancheh (plural kamanchehs)

1. (music) A long-necked stringed instrument (a spike fiddle) with a bowl-shaped body, traditionally featuring three silk strings but now more often four metal ones, played with a bow, common among the peoples of the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Near East.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones