2022/06/29
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The “Abu” instrument was Abdel Halim Hafez’s loyal friend inside the orphanage, and he learned how to play it until it became his first love.
because of this adoration; Abdel Halim decided to go against the wishes of his brothers. They wished him to become a doctor or an engineer, but he dreamed of becoming a famous musician, as he confirmed in a televised interview, conducted with the media, Mona Gabr, when I asked him: “Since you studied at the Music Institute. Did you think of composing? He replied, “Omar, my goal was not to compose, nor to sing, too.
The professional path of playing the “Abu” instrument began when Halim joined the Institute of Arab Music, November 1945, and learned how to play the instrument during his studies at the institute. Upon graduating from the institute, Abdel Halim Hafez was offered to travel on a study mission to Russia, but he refused, and began his working life as a music teacher at Tanta Elementary School.
Abdel Halim did not complete the teaching profession, where he wrote about that difficult period in his memoirs: “I was fed up with the teacher’s job. I spent more than half my salary on travel and spent all my days on the train.” As an “Abu” player in the band, for 35 pounds per month.
On May 16, 1950, singer Ibrahim Hammouda was late in recording a song for one of the radio’s corners, so Abdel Halim submitted to Hafez Abdel Wahab, the radio’s music monitor, at that time and offered him to perform the song with his voice, but Ibrahim Hamouda’s presence at the last moment missed the opportunity from Abdel Halim Hafez. He returned to complete his beloved instrument again.
And because it is the beginning of the journey, the “Abu” instrument was able to enhance the ability of the musician Abdel Halim to control the breath in playing, which had a great impact on polishing his voice as a singer, as he used his ability to reciprocate the breath in the service of his voice, so his voice came out with a calm, dignified, committed, far from far from The screamer.
Although the “Abu” instrument was “the dearest of instruments” to his heart, Halim did not forget the instrument that carries between its strings a tension similar to the grief that overflows with his vocal cords. The intensity, the melancholy of the lute combines with the melancholy of his voice, and the song comes out of a new womb.
He was also taking advantage of his love and his good knowledge of the “lute”, while listening to the tunes that were presented to him by his companion, the composer, Muhammad Al-Mouji, in addition to the mutual playing links in private parties, between him and his teacher, the musician of generations, Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab.
In addition to playing the “Abu” and “lute”, Abdel Halim Hafez appeared in more than one televised meeting, playing multiple instruments “piano” or “organ”, while he participated with percussionists in one of his concerts and grabbed the “tambourine” instrument during the musical connection in the party. To prove to everyone that he is a universal artist who knows the ‘dens’ of tones well.