Daf

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The daf (Persian: دف), also known as dap (دپ), dâyere or riq, is an Iranian frame drum musical instrument, also used in popular and classical music in Persian-influenced South Asia and Central Asia, such as in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkey many regions of Georgia, Armenia, Pakistan as well as in parts of India and Russian polar regions.

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Image: Chehel-sotoon palace, Isfahan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.