Turkish musical instruments can be broadly classified into five categories, namely Ottoman classical, Western influenced modern, Belly dancing and Folk music, with various influence of Byzantine Music. Most of Turkish musical instruments spread in the former Byzantine and Ottoman Empire, all over the Caucasus, Central Asia, Southern Asia and Middle East. In ancient era Silk road had an effective role in this distribution.
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“A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
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