Ney
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Dialogue Text
Mr. Rida moves on to using your fingers in blocking the finger-holes of the Ney. He starts with the top 4 holes using his left hand, then moves to the lower holes and how to block them with the right hand. __ Welcome, I am Rida Bdeer, the Egyptian Nay player from i3zif.com. today we will talk about blocking the finger-holes. Here we have a rear hole and 3 front holes. Let’s take the first 4 holes, what happens is we place the inside of the finger on top of the hole like this, in the back hole, look how it leaves a mark on your finger. Look how to place the inside of your finger like this, the second finger is like this, the inside of the finger has to be in the middle of the hole, like this, hold it firmly. Your left hand is the one on the top, your right hand is lower , holding the lower part while playing. Again, the back hole is blocked by the inside of the finger like this, so that there is no air leaking while you blow. The second finger like this, 3rd finger, fourth finger like this. Look how I am holding it firmly, holding with my left hand. After that we remove the fingers like this. Let us put our fingers again like this and hold firmly, without allowing air to leak through the holes, like this. Notice our playing position; first hand you play like this. We remove the finger like this. This way we learned how to place our fingers. The next lesson, this third finger, fourth, fifth finger is placed like this in the right hand, and this finger holds the Nay from the back like this, see from the back like this. If we remove our left hand, the right hand is like this. Clear? It shows in the figure what we are doing. Now we take the whole thing, close it all, all the holes are closed like this. This is the playing position, all holes are blocked. you try sitting like this for a long time, whether the sound is generated or not, eventually it will come out, within time the sound will come out just fine. Hold one finger from below, and the rest 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 the first count is when it is all blocked, now 2,3,4,5…. Is when you open the holes. When they are all closed the sound that comes out is Do, Do sound, Do note, in the musical note it is the first note. Please note to have any air leaking while you play, holding the Nay really well with the Nay. In the next lesson we will learn how to generate the sound, like this *Play music* we will attempt to do this, only blocking the back hole. Like this, blocking the back hole. We will do this and start playing even with one hand. *Play music*. this sound is the result of blocking the back hole.
About Teacher
Reda Bedair
Reda Bedair
Reda Bedair was born in Alexandria, 1951 AD. At this time, he learned at the hands of senior masters, one of them was the Turkish Professor Milad Mansour, the zither player. Reda learned the Arabic strophic poems (Muwasshahat) and the music keys (Maqamat) and was taught by the Italian master Costa Menolli, the pianist, to enhance reading the musical note until he joined the Arab Music Institute in Alexandria to polish his talent and begin the right way. He learned the Oriental keys and the rhythmical meters at the Institute and learned the rules of reading the musical note that he had been taught before by the Masters. Beside his study at the Arab Music Institute, He studied outside the Institute with other professors as there was no study of the “Nay” instrument at the Institute. At the age of twelve, his artistic talent was adopted by one of the Revolution’s men, Mr. Hussein El-Shafeei, Deputy of the late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser. At this young age, Reda started working with several bands in Alexandria city among them was the Radio (broadcasting) band. His name started shining in the sky of Alexandria city… he become the most famous “Nay” player in Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture honored him in the attendance of President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, in the inauguration of the New Nubia Museum in Aswan. Mr. President asked him about his distinct artistic work of the Pharaonic “Nay”, which acquired a worldwide reputation and has been broadcast on stations of all countries of the world.

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