{{Short description|Musical instrument}} {{Infobox instrument | name = Bendir | image = bendir.jpg | caption = A bendir with snares | background = | classification = | hornbostel_sachs = 211.3 | hornbostel_sachs_desc = Membranophone | inventors = | developed = | range = | pitch = | timbre = | volume = | attack = | decay = | related = | musicians = | builders = | articles = }}
The '''bendir''' ({{langx|ar|بندير}}, {{lang|ar-Latn|bindīr}}; {{plural form}}: {{lang|ar|بنادير}}, {{lang|ar-Latn|binādīr}}) is a wooden-framed frame drum of North Africa and Southwest 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 ceremonies; it was played, too, in Ancient Egypt and 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, Algeria]]
The bandir often has a snare (usually made of gut) 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 of Egypt and the bodhrán of 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.<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> {{clear left}}
==See also== {{Portal|Music}} * Daf * Riq * Mazhar * Davul * Long drum
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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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