# Bendir

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The '''bendir''' ({{langx|ar|بندير}}, {{lang|ar-Latn|bindīr}}; {{plural form}}: {{lang|ar|بنادير}}, {{lang|ar-Latn|binādīr}}) is a wooden-framed [frame drum](/source/frame_drum) of [North Africa](/source/North_Africa) and [Southwest Asia](/source/West_Asia).<ref name="Raine-Reusch2010">{{cite book|last=Raine-Reusch|first=Randy|title=Play the World: The 101 World Instrument Primer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ge1Ee_qo69oC&pg=PA85|year=2010|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|location=Pacific, MO.|isbn=978-1-61065-251-3|page=85}}</ref>

The bendir is a traditional instrument that is played throughout North Africa, as well as in [Sufi](/source/Sufism) ceremonies; it was played, too, in [Ancient Egypt](/source/Ancient_Egypt) and [Mesopotamia](/source/Mesopotamia).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://larkinthemorning.com/blogs/news/bendir-history|title=Bendir - History|work=Lark in the Morning|access-date=2017-12-27|language=en}}</ref> In Turkish, the word ''bendir'' means "a big hand frame drum".{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

==Construction and play==
[[File:A man playing the Bendir in Laghouat, Algeria.jpg|thumb|left|160px|A man playing the bendir in [Laghouat](/source/Laghouat), Algeria]]

The bandir often has a snare (usually made of [gut](/source/Intestine)) stretched across the head, which gives the tone a buzzing quality when the drum is struck with the fingers or palm. The drum is played in a vertical position. One holds the drum by looping the thumb of the non-dominant hand through a hole in the frame.

Similar frame drums include the [tar](/source/Tar_(drum)) of [Egypt](/source/Egypt) and the [bodhrán](/source/bodhr%C3%A1n) of [Ireland](/source/Ireland). Unlike the bendir, the tar does not have a snare on the back of the frame, and the bodhrán is played with a [beater](/source/Percussion_mallet).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comhaltas.ie/music/treoir/detail/bodhran_its_origin_meaning_and_history/|title=Comhaltas: Bodhrán: its origin, meaning and history|first=Comhaltas Ceoltóirí|last=Éireann|website=comhaltas.ie|access-date=2 January 2018|archive-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908154553/https://comhaltas.ie/music/treoir/detail/bodhran_its_origin_meaning_and_history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
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==See also==
{{Portal|Music}}
* [Daf](/source/Daf)
* [Riq](/source/Riq)
* [Mazhar](/source/Mazhar)
* [Davul](/source/Davul)
* [Long drum](/source/Long_drum)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070308072705/http://www.eckermanndrums.com/english/e_bendir.html Bendir] at Eckermann Drums Austria

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