Gilded Serpent presents...
Musical Instrument Tour
Footage captured at the Mendocino Music Camp in August 2008

• Dror Sinai on Bendir,
• Souren Baronion on Kuval, Dudook, Riq, Clarinet, Sax,
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek on Ney (and Zurna or Mizmar)

Comings soon:
Paul Ohenasian on Oud, Bahram Osqueezadeh on Santur and Tombak, Rowan Storm on Frame Drum, Sabah Motallebi on Tar and Sitar,
Murat Tekbilek on Darbuka, Ergun Tamer on Saz and Kanoun, Samira Tamer demonstrates finger snapping, Daoud David Hermon on Baglama,
Tina Chancey on a medieval violin, Miles Jay on bass.

	Posted 11-11-08 Omar Faruk Tekbilek demonstrates the Ney Omar Faruk Tekbilek, originally from Turkey, teaches and demonstrates the ney and zurna. Also incuded are short performance clips of Omar with the instruments and band members. Omar starts by telling us the story of a holy man being taken to heaven on a holy horse or "burak". He relates this to being taken out of our daily lives by playing music on our instruments- "I have so many horses!" he says of all his instruments. He tells us about the different tunings and ranges of the different neys he has. He also tells how he made his own. In addition, Omar shows us a zurna or mizmar and the double reed that it uses.
	Posted 9-24-08 Souren Baronion demonstrate his Musical Instruments -Part 1 Kuval, Dudook, G (or Sol) Clarinet, Soprano Sax and Riq or Tamborine included also are snipits from performances
	Posted 9-24-08 Souren Baronion demonstrate his Musical Instruments -Part 2 Kuval, Dudook, G (or Sol) Clarinet, Soprano Sax and Riq or Tamborine included also are snipits from performances
	Posted 9-3-08 Our First Video is with Dror Sinai Demonstrating the Bendir filmed at the 2008 Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp

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