The genre is performed solo or by a group of singers and an orchestra of lutes, fiddles, frame-drums and flutes.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Drums and lutes echo the grave, distant tunes of Bedouins and Peuls.

ECONOMIST: From ra? to rap

The intellectual practices of doubting authority and trying out experiments happened on lutes and with tempera on gesso before they turned toward the stars.

NEWYORKER: Moon Man

The radif may be vocal or instrumental, performed on a variety of instruments with different performance techniques including the long- necked lutes ''t?r'' and ''set?r, '' as well as the ''santur'' hammered zither, ''kam?nche'' spike fiddle and ''ney'' reed pipe.

UNESCO: Culture

People saw them for what they were, a hundred and two faeries and a dead boy proceeding down the hall with harps and flutes, crowded in the service elevator with fiddles and lutes, marching out of the hospital with drums.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast