Dorantine : Lahuta and Cimbalom

Marvellous! Funny, your name Arnaud is how the Turks refer to Albanians. it's a corruption from the Greek Arvanit, which comes from some form of non-Latin rendering of Albanian = Arbanit which is a contraction of how Albanians used to call themselves: Arbëresh.

Shume melodi e mrekullueshme

Arnaud, You are true musician! I feel this music with my flesh and bones, absolutely mesmerizing. Thank You!

Lahuta e Malësis 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱✅✅

Tonbak and Santur are Persian Musical Instrument

Beautiful, make more music like this...

why lute and not gusle?

То је Србски инструмент! А не шиптарски. Козојеби све краду од Срба.. историју, државну територију, уметност.. На крају ће се све видети.

Beautiful music ❤

This Is pellazgh ilirian off Albania instrument . Ok

Gusle is the national instrument of SERBIA and its heritage. There are more than 100 ancient song about our rich History. It is consolidated by the UNESCO world heritage organization as being part of unbreakable Serbian Heritage

Lamartine: "Albanians, this nation and this people can not be mocked ... This is the land of heroes of all time ... Homer found there Achilles, the Greeks the Alexander the Great, Turks found Skanderbeg, people these of the same race, the same blood" .

Maurico Druon, secretary of the French Academy: "Albanians belonging to those people older than History itself. Albanian grandparents participated in the war of Troy, led by Achilles (on one side) and Hector (the other side) ".

Nicolas Iorga: "The Albanian people together and the Basques one are the oldest in Europe."

Maximilian Lambertz: "The true History of the humanity will be written only when it will be written with the participation of Albanians".

Huacunthe Hecquard: "In no country in the world women are not more respected and does not exercise a powerful activity than Albanian women, some Albanian mothers ousted from home their children because left the war front. They had returned them to the battlefield".

Lord Byron: "Albanians with their costumes make a most wonderful scenery in the world ... Albanians are the most beautiful human race exists, courageous, stronger than their strongholds."

Henry Noel Brailsford: "... The 'primitive' Albanian, in fact is the superhuman," of which Nietzsche dreamed."

Giuseppe Katapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Illyrians (Pelasgians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and Small Asia small".

Agostino Ribeco: "The millennial Albanians Rights, ethnographic and geographic range from old times in Illyria, Macedonia and Thessaly."

Branislav Nušić: "Albanians are indigenous, who during all invasions of peoples kept its type and character significantly. They faced attacks by Romans, dense Slavs raids, who invadet them all fields, plains, and rivers ".

H. Dusko Konstantinov: "Albanians are the oldest inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula and direct descendants of the Illyrians, who had built the most powerful state in the Balkans."

Edvin Jacques: "The Illyrians or Albanians, these stalwart warriors were Albanians, heirs of Achilles, Philip, Alexander the Great and the Piros of Epirus ...".

Edvin Pears: "Albanians are descendants of the oldest race of the Balkan Peninsula, namely the Aryan race, to draw this word from two Albanian roots of words: Gold and side, which i.e. people of pure gold."

Max Myle: "The names of of most familiar people derived from the old Albanian word 'Ar'. This also applies to many other countries of the world."

Fanulla Papazogllu: "Dardania is one of the ancient Balkan provinces where the indigenous population is the best preserved."

Jen Goss: "The origin of the Albanians to the time of Pelazgs and have pre-helen origin."

Gustav Meier: "Albanians are young Illyrians".

George Hahn: "Albanians are descendants of Illyrians, but the descendants of the Illyrians were Pelasgians ... Albanians are grandchildren of Pelasgians".

Haki Pasha: "If the Albanian history emerges, the Ottoman Empire will go to the river".

Harold Whitehal: "Egyptian hieroglyphics, created 4,000 years ago have Albanian significance".

Henri Braisford: "In Macedonia, Albanians are the only indigenous people."

Johan von Han: "The Albanian derives from Illyrian and the Illyrian from Pellasgian one".

Jovan Cvijiq: "South Slavs, after arrived in the Balkans, found there the Albanians, who under their pressure (Slavs) retreated southward and to most mountainous areass, where we face today."

Konstantin Paparigopulos: "Only the Albanians are considered descendants of the Illyrian race

This is Serbian national instrument Gusle

I've never heard this instrument played in such manner, in Serbia there is a very similar instrument as you already know, but the traditional playing style has nothing to do with this, Im guessing the same goes for Albania. Very refreshing and interesting, great work from composing to video editing, Im hoping and looking forward to similar works from you

Divine music ❤🇦🇱

❤❤❤best of Albanian national Instrument ever❤❤❤

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ODLIČNO 👌👍

We have same instrument like this in Ethiopia we call it MASINKO

lahuta shqipe , ilire 🇦🇱🇽🇰

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🇦🇱🇽🇰 The great powers tried to give the glory and the powerful history, the lands, the istruments, the churches and everything to greeks, serbs and bulgars. But the truth is....its all ALBANIAN. The good historians know it - bad historians are telling fairytales (even if they know the truth) 🇦🇱🇽🇰

Serbian instrument - GUSLE

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You have to notice the symbol of Amalthea (a-mal-dhia) and snake (Cadmus) sailing the river of Hades on that string while singing epos for dead heroes. Well done 🇦🇱

I need more information on this. The high tones on this sound nothing like the lahuta/gusle. I also noticed that your string seems to be going under the bridge rather than on top of it (or is it the older style where it is drilled through?). Have you adapted the lahuta to get these smooth sounds? Maybe also changed the string? There was a famous Serbian cellist who played the gusle in this manner (and with an orchestra) in the '80s, but even his high notes had that signature warble/tremolo/scraping that this instrument is known for. This almost sounds like a rabab or one of the other eastern variants which have lost their horse-hair in exchange for steel strings. Please share more information about how you've achieved this sound.

PLEASE do a tutorial on how to play this beautiful instrument. I just got one and I'm realizing tutorials are nearly non existent. Please and thank you

This is beautiful

This is beautiful

Arnaud i never heard lahuta played this way, as an albanian i am super impressed. its one of our most preassured musical instrument which is said to be passed down to the us by the old gods. sending hugs

So beautiful. I love this <3

it sounds wonderful !!

que bonito !!

Wait, is this a representation of a snake on the baguette of the instrument? Very sensitive subject as i know some instruments and musique have been banned from heaven because their taking the soul of people. Yes it's very sensitive and delicate. I'm scared!

Salve Arnaud, cercavo uno strumento e mi sei comparso tu con questa meraviglosa melodia. Cosi ho cercato su internet e a circa due ore da me c'era un signore che ne vendeva una e l'ho acquistata senza pensarci due volte! Mi piacerebbe enormemente se mi potessi dare qualche dritta, consiglio a riguardo. Grazie

Teper Mire Dhe Me Hire Malesia Me Tingellon Bukure

Lahuta e malsies shqiptare 🇦🇱❤️

Cool. Reminds me of Altan Urag.

Bravo avec votre charisme en jouant le Lahuta, vous lui avez donné de vie. C'est un plaisir de voir cet ancien et réductif instrument qu'avec une sole corde peut faire beaucoup de sons. En Albanie, ça accompagnait les récits des anciens depuis le temps d'Homère

Beautiful! It is uncommon to find someone play with such grace. Greetings from Serbia.

😂😂😂😂😂 ALBANIAN???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

this is unheard beautifully done even though it is an Albanian instrument it sounds totally unique from what i’m used to hear

Absolutely love this! I was researching gusla instrumental for a game I'm developing and this is just fantastic. I had no idea Lahuta or Gusle could be played in this gentle manner. Beautiful music!

Arnaud - thanks for posting. Could you put something about how came to know or play this tune?
Lute is a Medieval instrument of Albanian Highlands... High Albanian Frontier Warriors saga is sang generation after generation until the modern times; like Homer's Illiad, it was passed down from father to son, no written text. There is a video of an elderly Albanian man, 94 years old, blind like Homer, chanting the Frontier Worriers and playing the lute. For highlanders lute is a sacred instrument, singing akin to calling the spirits of their ancestors.
Arnaud, where you hail from? Albanians are called "Arnaut" by the Turkish, and internally Albanians call themselves "shqipetar"... the name "shqipetar" comes from "eagle"... but the Turkish word for eagle is different (Kartal)... unless the Turkish people are using the old Germanic form "Arnau" for eagle.

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Bonjour Arnaud,
Quel type de corde se monte sur le Lahuta.
Je pensais a la corde boyau d'une lyre .
Merci

hes morbin

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Witcher 3 vibes, I like it