Definitions
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- noun A type of frame
drum used in Morocco and other parts of North Africa.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one area roughly 40 boys and girls circled a bendir player keeping a simple beat.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: How Morocco Can Inspire the World Derek Beres 2011
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In one area roughly 40 boys and girls circled a bendir player keeping a simple beat.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: How Morocco Can Inspire the World Derek Beres 2011
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In one area roughly 40 boys and girls circled a bendir player keeping a simple beat.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: How Morocco Can Inspire the World Derek Beres 2011
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In one area roughly 40 boys and girls circled a bendir player keeping a simple beat.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: How Morocco Can Inspire the World Derek Beres 2011
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The hoarse derbouka, and the languorous ghesbah joined in with the savage tobol and the strident raïta; and under all was the tired heart-beat of the bendir, dull yet resonant, and curiously exciting to the nerves.
The Golden Silence 1901
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They were playing the bendir, the tomtom, the Arab flute, as well as the räita; but the räita laughed the other music down.
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With darabukka and bendir against the kugo, these tracks possess an echo of ancient intricacy and Spanish mystery.
World Music Central TJNelson 2010
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Baklava is a musical group with a minimalist musical concept: the sound is made by only one female vocal and two string and percussion intruments - the tambura and the bendir.
AvaxHome 2010
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