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Cover illustration: George Sawa playing an antique qanun without levers and surrounded by four qanuns: clockwise from the top right a qanun with eleven levers, one with no levers, one with nine levers, and one with six levers.
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ISSN 2214-6563
ISBN 978-90-04-52771-3 (hardback)
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