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    Ottoman military band (redirect from Mehter)
    were the first-recorded military marching bands. Though often known as mehter (Ottoman Turkish: مهتر, plural: مهتران mehterân; from "senior" in Persian)...
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    turca. Sultan Mahmud II abolished the mehter band in 1826 along with the Janissary corps. Mahmud replaced the mehter band in 1828 with a European style military...
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    Mahmut Şevket Pasha's car Istanbul Military Museum Mehter performance Istanbul Military Museum Mehter performance Istanbul Military Museum: Decoration on...
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    cymbals for the mehter, Ottoman military bands consisting of wind and percussion instruments, which belonged to the Janissaries. Mehter ensembles, which...
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    the Ottoman Empire. He is also known for writing many of today's popular mehter marches, such as Ceddin Deden "Murat Bardakçı - İmparatorluğun farklı dillerinde...
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    with a metallic color. However, the triangle was not used in functional mehter music, nor was it used by Janissaries or mehteran while providing music...
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    most popular military marches, and today is played on all military events in Austria. Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry Bosniaks Mehter World War I v t e...
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    Eski Ordu Marşı ("Ancient Army March") is a Rast Mehter song composed by Muallim İsmail Hakkı Bey (1865-1927). Ey şanlı ordu, ey şanlı asker Haydi gazanfer...
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    stature to the Seljuk court. These gifts included: a golden war banner, a mehter (war drum), a tuğ (a pole with circularly arranged horse tail hairs), a...
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  • is a Turkish word which means sharp mountains. As this the influence of Mehter and Turkish rhythms and melodies can be seen in Balkan Music. In the 19th...
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