LA SHARKIE, UN INSTRUMENT DE MUSIQUE ET SES FONCTIONS
The Sharkie, a Music Instrument and the way how it works

Summary/Abstract: Among the Albanian music instruments, Sharkie has a pledge of choice. Its deep and resonant timbres gives a whole set of opinions and feelings of the shepherd, the warrior of yesterday and our today new man. Sharkie accompanies a good part of the lyrical songwriter, epic as well as folk songs. In the sphere of instrumental folk music, this instrument stands out as one of the most complex instruments that can be used alone or in orchestral orchestras, but always as a main instrument. Sharkie has attracted the attention of several ethno-musicologists and others, who have given disparate views the demarcation of its physiognomy. Some authors make sharkie look like the Italian augurio, the zither, there the zither still or a big two-stringed çifteli. Other writers make sharkie look like çifteli, lahute, guitar, tambura, saze, but still indicating it as a cordophone multi-string instrument. Other later definitions specify more precisely the physiognomy of this instrument, considering it as a box instrument made of 4 or 5 strings, like a cordophone instrument with five strings. Later, in R. Sokoli's definitions, the sharkie commune is considered a three-stringed instrument, according to the principle of "quart-quint" intervals, to the sectioned handle in unequal parts.

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