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Nafir (Arabic نَفير, DMG an-nafīr), also nfīr, plural anfār, Turkish nefir, is a slender, shrill-sounding straight natural trumpet with a cylindrical tube and a conical metal bell, producing one or two notes. It was used as a military signaling instrument and as a ceremonial instrument in countries shaped by Islamic culture in North Africa, the Middle…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nafir | Classification | Brass | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nafir | Developed | Persian Empire and Arab conquerors spread instrument to India, China, Malaysia, Africa, and Andalusia. Wars between Europe and Islamic powers brought the horn to Europe. Europea… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nafir | Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 423.121 (Natural trumpets – There are no means of changing the pitch apart from the player's lips; end-blown trumpets – The mouth-hole faces the axis of the trumpet.) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nafir | Inventor(s) | The earliest known are Egyptian. Greek and Etruscan trumpets from antiquity passed from the Romans to the Persians. Possibly a Middle East Assyrian tradition as well. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nafir | Other names | būq al-nafīr nefir (Turkish spelling) | 1.00 | infobox |
| the karna | instance of | duller sound of the conical trumpets | 0.80 | text |
| the Greek salpinx | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
| Roman tuba | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
| and extremely-curved examples like the lur | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
| cornu | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
| buccina | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
| pre-13th century European trumpets were shaped like oxen horns until encounters with Islamic armies' nafirs inspired creation of instruments such as the Spanish añafil | instance of | 1486.Except for some early straight-tubed European instruments | 0.80 | text |
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