Kemane

Kemane (Macedonian: ќемане, pronounced ['cɛmanɛ]; Serbian: ћемане) is a bowed string instrument traditionally used in the Balkans and Anatolia.It is the Macedonian and southern Serbian version of the kemenche, it is very similar to the violin or viola[1][2] and related to the Bulgarian gadulka.[2] Older kemane's were made by hacking holes in the instrument in which were inserted horse tail hairs, however the modern kemane's strings are attached to a wooden headstock, similar to that of a violin.[5] It is prepared out of one piece of wood (walnut, maple, or other) with three structural parts: the body (krtuna), neck (shija), and the headstock (glava).[6] It is mostly spread in Eastern Macedonia and the region of Osogovo where in some parts the instrument is referred to as kjemene, and in the northern parts of Macedonian it is called gusla, it is also played in south eastern Serbia where it is called ћемане or гусла interchangeably by locals.
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