kamancheh

Bowed string instrument of Iranian origin used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument
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kamancheh
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kamancheh

Summary

kamancheh ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (163 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • kamancheh's image is recorded as 2 Kamānches, Persia, ca. 1880.jpg[2].
  • kamancheh's image is recorded as Azerbaijani musical instrument kamancha in Heydar Aliyev Center.jpg[3].
  • kamancheh's GND ID is recorded as 4349344-0[4].
  • kamancheh's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh90002262[5].
  • kamancheh's subclass of is recorded as spike bowl lute[6].
  • kamancheh's subclass of is recorded as kemenche[7].
  • kamancheh's Commons category is recorded as Kamancheh[8].
  • kamancheh's country of origin is recorded as Iran[9].
  • kamancheh's country of origin is recorded as Azerbaijan[10].
  • kamancheh's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vm4p[11].
  • kamancheh's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kamancheh[12].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01286[13].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01286[14].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/01286[15].
  • kamancheh's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300265852[16].
  • kamancheh's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300222154[17].
  • kamancheh's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as a9f76c33-1eaa-48c0-a43c-ee12754eb7bf[18].
  • kamancheh's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[19].
  • kamancheh's described by source is recorded as Encyklopedia muzyki[20].
  • kamancheh's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/kamanja[21].
  • kamancheh's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.311-7[22].
  • kamancheh's different from is recorded as Kamayacha[23].
  • kamancheh's different from is recorded as kemenche[24].
  • kamancheh's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as kamanjeh[25].
  • kamancheh's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[26].

Why It Matters

kamancheh ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (163 views/month).[1] kamancheh has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] kamancheh is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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