Middle Eastern Flute Magic: Play the Nay: Finger Charts for Arabic Music Scales Powers Cameron

Learn to play the ancient Middle Eastern reed flute known as the nay. However, it is not so easy to play. Famous in Sufi poetry for its wailing soulful sound, it is not hard to fall totally in love with this instrument.

The notes generated by the nay form primary scales known in the Middle East and Orient as maqams. Musicians who are flautists already will also have difficulty as the nay requires its own special method or embouchure to make a sound. This book provides instruction, very rare in the West or in English language, on how to generate the complex haunting sounds and also provides finger charts for numerous traditional music scales popular in the