Right, DB!
There are some instruments imported from the orient. Early the lute [al-'ûd]. During the wars with the Turks a special instrument was introduced into German military bands from the prizes, which is in German called "Schellenbaum" = jingle tree, often mistook for a standard, or pennant by foreign vsitors. Also the big drum is from Turkish origin. (Old army joke: The melody is for the officers, for the enlisted herd is the drum - bang is always left foot.}
The crucial difference between Oriental and European music is: Only the Europeans developed polyphony, and don't know the quarter tones which are common in the Orient.
The European scales, of which only survived major and minor, are from early Greek origin. More old scales were preserved until medieval times in church music.