… (“the Great”, 1867?-1943?), one of the first qanun players in Iraq. Zaarur al-Kabbir was a source of … Zaarur learned to play other instruments including the nay (Arab flute), violin, and cello. Family lore has it that … (qanun), Hussayn Abdullah (percussion), Yakub al-Imari (nay), Saleh al-Kuwaiti (violin) and Abraham Qazza (cello). …

… by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad as oud and nay player as well as composer, until he moved to Israel in the … maqamat performances by Yaqub al-‘Amari. Al-‘Amari’s five nay taqasim in the Iraqi style : Maqams husseini, owj, rast, …

… that it was the famous Sami al-Shawa, a Cairo-born violin player of Aleppian descent, who could be heard in “ Yom Yom … come to Jerusalem to play with Ezra Aharon, a Jewish ʿud player and composer of liturgical hymns who had emigrated … his life in Aleppo (al-Hefny 1974); the Aleppian composer, nay player and music theorist Ali al-Darwish carried out …

… he has served as a community rabbi. He plays the oud, the nay, as well as percussions. His cousin, the cantor Moshe … … Composers … Menachem … Piyyutim … Haim Louk … oud player … nay player … Composer … habusha … David Menahem … David …

… Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the …