Daf Instrument
What type of instrument is daf?
The Daf is a certain type of frame drum that is widespread all over the orient. Historically, the Daf is often associated with Sufi ceremonies and rituals. Nowadays the sound of this special percussion instrument can be heard all over Middle Eastern and oriental music.
Daf instrument history
The Pahlavi (an ancient Iranian language) name of the
Daf is dap.[9] Some pictures of
Daf have been found in paintings that date before the
Common Era. The presence of the Iranian daf in the 6th–5th
century BCE Behistun Inscription suggests that it existed before the
rise of Islam and Sufism. Iranian music has always been a spiritual
tool. It shows that Daf played an important role in
Mazdean Iran emerging as an important element during the Sassanian
period during the Kâvusakân dynasty. Also, there is a kind of square
frame drum in the stonecutting of Taq-e Bostan (another famous monument
located 5km northeast of Kermanshah city). These frame drums were played
in the ancient Middle East (chiefly by women in Kurdish societies),
Greece, and Rome and reached medieval Europe through Islamic culture.
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