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PERSIAN MUSICIAN
An extract from Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2
by Ian Heath
![Persian Musician in ‘Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2’ by Ian Heath](Middle_Ages_2-33-Persian_Musician.jpg)
33. PERSIAN MUSICIAN
The mounted bands that accompanied Persian armies were, like those of the Ottomans and Mamluks, composed principally of drums and trumpets.
In particular Tamerlane’s armies used a 7-foot trumpet called a kourroun to transmit orders on the battlefield,
and it is just such a trumpet that is depicted in this figure, from a Timurid ms. illuminated in Tabriz c. 1400.
Drummers usually had a pair of kettle-drums (called kus) slung one to either side of the saddle-bow.
See Jaylarid Musicians,
Timurid Trumpeters,
Late Timurid or Turkmen Musicians,
Bent Timurid Trumpets
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