Çarpare-çarpare

Çarpare-çarpare

Drawing

An image of a circular object having jingling rings amongst musical instruments played by a Sufi sect. It appears to be mislabled çarpare, as that term almost always refers to Ottoman-Turkish clappers/castagnettes/finger cymbals. Perhaps someone in that particular Sufi sect played those objects in a similar fashion to çârpâre, and whoever made the image used the term as a semantic catchall (the likes of which troubles us so much in percussion history). The objects do appear similar to la Borde’s depictions but lack the beater that Praetorius mentions.