Back in 2015 I made a video demoing some of my instruments and one of them was my Turkish Cümbüş (pronounced: jumbush) with nylon strings. I hated the metal strings on my Cümbüş I bought when backpacking in Turkey, and so one day I haphazardly put on nylon strings to make it more like an Oud-Rubab-like instrument. Later, Sylvain from sbd-projets.com started modifying Cümbüş specifically for nylon strings and his signature style hoops that make it easier…
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