Talk:Zār

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I think most of the "Mazaher" section should be split to its own article. It appears that most or all of this information was taken from the egyptmusic.org website [1]. I think it was sufficiently rewritten so that it isn't a copyvio, but I think it needs further work in terms of tone, style, verification etc. Also, there is a whole lot of confusion resulting from the seeming interchangeability of the terms tanbura, tamboura, tanbur etc. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians identifies the instrument as a tanbura so I've gone with that. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done I've moved the Mazaher text to Mazaher. I've reassessed this article as class=stub. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

It isn't clear to me whether Zar is a religion, a ritual, or the term for possessive spirits. Based on the little I've been able to find it might mean any of the three. In any case I'd suggest changing the article's name so it has a shorter and/or clearer disambiguation than "(religious custom)". -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done I've moved the article to Zār, as spelled in the Grove Dictionary of Music. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 12:58, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I've also redirected Zaar to Zār. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tanbūra and krar

A new citation in the article supports the idea that Zaar spread to Southwest Asia (i.e. Arabia, Iran) via Ethiopian slaves. I'm wondering if they brought the krar with them: judging from photos, the Zaar tanbūra and the krar are very similar. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)