He learned Persian drumming at the early age of nine and broadened his drumming knowledge by working on Azeri dayereh ( ghaval ), Kurdish daf and Indian tabla.

The Persian poet Rudaki, who widely used names of the musical instruments in his poems, mentions the daf and the tambourine ( taboorak ) in a Ruba ' i:

Instruments used in Persian classical music include the bowed spike-fiddle kamancheh, the goblet drum tombak, the end-blown flute ney, the frame drum daf, the long-necked lutes tar, setar, tanbur, dotar, and the dulcimer santur.

The art of daf playing in Iranian Kurdistan and other parts of Iran has reached us by the effort of Iranian Sufis ; especially in the 20th century by the late Sayyed Baha-al-Din Shams Ghorayshi ( 1872 – 1947 ), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Karim Safvati ( 1919 -…), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Mirza Agha Ghosi ( 1928 -…), Mohi-al-Din Bolbolani ( 1929 -…), Sayyed Mohammad Shams Ghorayshi ( 1930 -…) and Masha-Allah Bakhtiyari ( 1940 -…), Mahdi Sangi Kermanshahi ( 1991 -...).

Duff Muttu ( also called Dubh Muttu ) is an art form prevalent among Mappilas, using the traditional duff, or daf, also called Thappitta.

A daf is a large-sized tambourine used to accompany both popular and classical music in Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey ( where it is called tef ), Uzbekistan ( where it's called childirma ), India ( where it is known as the Dafli ) and Turkmenistan.

The Pahlavi ( an ancient Iranic language ) name of the daf is dap.

The referencing by daf is relatively recent and dates from the early Talmud printings of the 17th century.

Nowadays, reference is made in format daf a / b ( e. g. Berachot 23b ).

The dafli, also popularly known as daf, dappler or tambourine, is a must for weddings.

* The daf and the dayereh are Iranian frame drums.

The earliest evidence of the daf dates back to Sassanid Iran.

The word daf is therefore the Arabicized form of the word dap.

The Moors introduced the daf and other Middle Eastern musical instruments to Spain, and the Spanish adapted and promoted the daf and other musical instruments ( such as the guitar ) in medieval Europe.

In the 15th century, the daf was only used in Sufi ceremonies ; the Ottomans reintroduced it to Europe in the 17th century.

A daf is depicted on the reverse of the Azerbaijani 1 qəpik coin minted since 2006 and on the obverse of the Azerbaijani 1 manat banknote issued since 2006 .< ref > National Bank of Azerbaijan.

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The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was put forth at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna on 16 August 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, then Rav of Sanok, Poland, and future rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

He travels for 15 days from Eretz Yisrael to America, and each day he learns the daf.

When he arrives in America, he enters a beis medrash in New York and finds Jews learning the very same daf that he studied on that day, and he gladly joins them.

Another Jew leaves the States and travels to Brazil or Japan, and he first goes to the beis medrash, where he finds everyone learning the same daf that he himself learned that day.

The first cycle of Daf Yomi commenced on the first day of Rosh Hashanah 5684 ( 11 September 1923 ), with tens of thousands of Jews in Europe, America and Israel learning the first daf of the first tractate of the Talmud, Berachot.

To show support for the idea, the Gerrer Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, learned the first daf of Berachot in public on that day.

The Dafyomi Advancement Forum, founded by Kollel Iyun Hadaf in 1996, is a free resource center offering English-language translations, outlines, charts, analyses and lectures on every daf, as well as answers to any question by email.

It has recorded shiurim on the daf on CD-ROM in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and French.

Musically, the ensemble consists of oud ( lute ), kamanja ( spike fiddle ), qanun ( box zither ), darabukkah ( goblet drum ), and daf ( tambourine ),: the players of these instruments often double as a choir.

The population registration system still has important functions.

People can appreciate a Renaissance Madonna for aesthetic reasons, but such objects often had ( and sometimes still have ) specific devotional functions.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

This newer method of rasterization utilizes the graphics card's more taxing shading functions and still achieves better performance because the simpler textures stored in memory use less space.

The Horse Cavalry Detachment of the U. S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division is made up of active duty soldiers, still functions as an active unit, trained to approximate the weapons, tools, equipment and techniques used by the United States Cavalry in the 1880s.

It was followed the next year by the SR-50 which added log and trig functions to compete with the HP-35, and in 1977 the mass-marketed TI-30 line which is still produced.

Not all words ending in-aŭ are adverbs, and most of the adverbs that end in-aŭ have other functions, such as hodiaŭ " today " or adverb or ankoraŭ " yet, still " or adverb.

As a consequence, these languages fail to be Turing complete and expressing certain functions in them is impossible, but they can still express a wide class of interesting computations while avoiding the problems introduced by unrestricted recursion.

Although the idea was conceived in the 1950s, the design of good hash functions is still a topic of active research.

The development of the contraceptive pill and other highly effective forms of contraception in the mid-and late 20th century has increased people's ability to segregate these three functions, which still overlap a great deal and in complex patterns.

The first 32 divisions listed below are the " traditional " counties, 20 of which still have administrative functions as local government divisions in the Republic of Ireland ( in some cases with slightly redrawn boundaries ).

With the White House still under construction, she advised as to its furnishings and sometimes served as First Lady for ceremonial functions for President Thomas Jefferson, a widower and their friend.

In many developed countries, these functions have been assumed by the state ; however, the provision of professional training, legal advice and representation for members is still an important benefit of trade union membership.

These Metanarratives still remain in Western society but are now being undermined by rapid Informatization and the commercialization of the University and its functions.

Detectives, in contrast to uniform police, typically wear ' business attire ' in bureaucratic and investigative functions where a uniformed presence would be either a distraction or intimidating, but a need to establish police authority still exists.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

Dozens of nociceptor transient receptor potential, acid sensing, potassium and ligand-gated ion channels have so far been identified, and their exact functions are still being determined.

Until recently, there still existed hereditary officers of the Roman Curia, holding titles denominating functions that had ceased to be a reality when the Papal States were lost to the papacy.

Relays with calibrated operating characteristics and sometimes multiple operating coils are used to protect electrical circuits from overload or faults ; in modern electric power systems these functions are performed by digital instruments still called " protective relays ".

Each stage may have a distinct physiological function and this can result in sleep that exhibits loss of consciousness but does not fulfill its physiological functions ( i. e., one may still feel tired after apparently sufficient sleep ).

Russia has restored control over Chechnya, but the separatist government functions still in exile, though it has been split into two entities: the Achmed Zakayev-run secular Chechen Republic ( based in Poland, the UK and the USA ), and the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.

On Unix systems, the shell is still the implementation language of system startup scripts, including the program that starts the windowing system, the programs that facilitate access to the Internet, and many other essential functions.

While a student of Andrey Kolmogorov at Moscow State University and still a teenager, Arnold showed in 1957 that any continuous function of several variables can be constructed with a finite number of two-variable functions, thereby partially solving Hilbert's thirteenth problem.

These types may still be referred to as " electron tubes " as they do perform electronic functions.

Predating digital computing, the Sensorama was a mechanical device, which reportedly still functions today.