7/11 TAKSIM: Bowed-Tanbur Hicaz Taksim- Fahrettin ÇİMENLİ

Cinuçen Tanrıkorur's Lecture-Demonstration on "TAKSIM (Improvisation) in Turkish Music" at The New England Conservatory, Boston, Mass. USA in 1994. [English was Tanrıkorur's fifth language which he said he learnt by watching cowboy movies when he was a high school student. He spoke Turkish, Italian and French very fluently as he attended the Italian School in Istanbul and his teachers were all native speakers.] Part 7 Cinuçen Tanrıkorur here discussess TAKSIM (improvisation) practice in Turkish music and invites his ensemble to perform taksims, starting with FAHRETTİN ÇİMENLİ making a taksim in the makam Hijaz on the bowed TANBUR.