NEY
Ney is among the oldest wind tools, with several versions known to this day. Abdulgadir Maraghi, a recognized Azerbaijani expert in
music (14th century), distinguished two types of ney, i.e. the white ney and the black ney. A very specific sound of ney was the reason of
a poetic metaphor by Muhammad Fuzuli, a great Azerbaijani poet of the 15th century, who wrote:“It’s the love that makes me moan
like ney…”
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Private collection. Made on the basis of archival sketches. End of the 20th century