kamancheh

Bowed string instrument of Iranian origin used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument
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kamancheh

Summary

kamancheh ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (385 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • kamancheh is a type of spike bowl lute[2].
  • kamancheh is a type of kemenche[3].
  • kamancheh's Commons category is recorded as Kamancheh[4].
  • kamancheh's country of origin is recorded as Iran[5].
  • kamancheh's country of origin is recorded as Azerbaijan[6].
  • kamancheh's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kamancheh[7].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01286[8].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01286[9].
  • kamancheh's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/01286[10].
  • kamancheh's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[11].
  • kamancheh's described by source is recorded as Encyklopedia muzyki[12].
  • kamancheh's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.311-7[13].
  • kamancheh's different from is recorded as Kamayacha[14].
  • kamancheh's different from is recorded as kemenche[15].
  • kamancheh's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[16].
  • kamancheh's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include spike bowl lute[2] and kemenche[3].

Why It Matters

kamancheh ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (385 views/month).[1] kamancheh has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] kamancheh is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of spike bowl lute, kemenche
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Intangible cultural heritage status Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553885405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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