Yes — Nagham rock the qanuu.
The qanun is a large from West Asia…yay! A qanun generally has 26 courses of strings — that’s a lot of strings. The musician — like Nagham, in this video — plays the instrument while sitting or squatting, plucking with two tortoise-shell picks or with fingernails. The sound of the many strings cascades, sweeping forth from the instrument, making mystical tones. The qanun’s mystery matches its history; the qanun may trace its ancestry to ancient Greece or even earlier — it could be thousands of years old.
