There is much in common between certain musical styles in the Balkans and Egypt, I suppose this happened during the time when both the Balkans and Egypt were part of the Ottoman Empire. In Bulgaria the instrument "zurna" /that features both in the piece you posted and in the Egyptian one above it/ is not very widespread, at least I had never seen it used on a line show; but it's very much used in Albania and Bosnia, and sometimes in Serbia. I guess the Turks got it from Egypt and disseminated it all over the Balkans, in places where they migrated or converted large amount of the local population.
Zurna orchestra in what I suppose is Turkish Thracia; this maybe a Roma/Gypsy band
This is a zurna piece found, it was played as a part of a wedding in Goce Delchev, Bulgarian Macedonia
Here, trumpet from Ancient Egypt, found in Tut's tomb:
"...A recent BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Ghost Music’, which I was involved with, resurrected an old recording of even older musical instruments- the 1939 broadcast
of trumpets over 3,300 years old, discovered in the tomb of the ancient
Egyptian king, Tutankhamun. These instruments are the only two
surviving trumpets from ancient Egypt...."
There is a recording on the link of the sound of the trumpets. Now, a zurna is a trumpet with a mouthpiece like a clarinet, made out of bamboo or something flexible /I used a piece of plastic from a milk bottle some years ago when i was playing with making historical musical instruments/. I think the zurna passed from Egypt to Anatolia, and from there to the Balkans.
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