Turkey’s Mehteran Association performed a show in Times Square in the center of New York and also in Central Park. The event attracted the attention of tourists in the square and was the scene of colorful images. The team then attracted attention with a concert in Central Park in the city center. Mehteran Union, performing at the flag-raising ceremony in Bowling Green Park in Manhattan, performed on American Turkish Day in front of Brooklyn Municipality.
About Mehteran Team
Ottoman military bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching bands in the world. Though they are often known by the word mahtar (مهتر; mehter in Ottoman Turkish) in the West, that word, properly speaking, refers only to a single musician in the band.
In Ottoman, the band was generally known as mehterân, though those bands used in the retinue of a vizier or prince were generally known as mehterhane (meaning roughly, “a gathering of mehters”, the band as a whole is often termed mehter bölüğü (“mehter company [troop]”), mehter takımı (“mehter platoon”). In the West, the band’s music is also often called Janissary music because the janissaries formed the core of the bands.
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