Shyuvr

Shyuvr
Classification
  • Bagpiping
Related instruments
  • Bock (Czech)
  • Cimpoi (Romanian)
  • Duda (Hungarian/Polish)
  • Koza (Polish)
  • Diple (Dalmatian Coast)
  • Mih (Istrian)
  • Tulum (Turkish and Pontic)
  • Tsambouna (Dodecanese and Cyclades)
  • Askomandoura (Crete)
  • Gajdy (Polish/Czech/Slovak)
  • Gaita (Galician)([Asturian])
  • Surle (Serbian/Croatian)
  • Mezoued/Zukra (Northern Africa)
  • Guda, tulum (Laz people)
  • Dankiyo, zimpona (Pontic)
  • Parkapzuk (Armenia)
  • Gudastviri (Georgia (country))
  • Tsimboni (Georgia (country) )(Adjara)
  • Sahbr, Shapar (Chuvashia)
  • Tulug (Azerbaijan)
  • Volynka (Ukrainian: Волинка), (Russian: Волынка) (Ukraine, Russia)
  • Swedish bagpipes (Sweden)
  • Ney anban(Iran)

The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources, Russian: Шувыр) is a type of bagpipe of the Mari people, a Volga-Finnic people living in the Mari El Republic of central-western Russia. It is described as small bagpipe, consisting of a bag, a bone blowpipe, and two tubes of tin joined by a wooden sheath.[1] The pipe is almost always played with the tumyr, a Mari drum.[2]

An 1892 French work noted that the Mari had developed three instruments: a cithare (zither or cittern), bagpipe, and drum.[3] A later English work makes a similar statement, saying that the Mari have two instruments unique to their culture: the kusle mult-stringed zither, and the shyuvr bagpipe.[4]

References

  1. ^ Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation (France). Musée; Gustave Chouquet (1894). Le musée du Conservatoire national de musique: Catalogue descriptif et raisonne. Supplement. Firmin-Didot. pp. 67–. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  2. ^ Malou Haine; Hubert Boone; Isabelle Deleuse; Géry Dumoulin; Wim Bosmans; Karel Moens; Anja Van Lerberghe; Ferdinand J De Hen; Pascale Vandervellen; Musée Instrumental (Bruxelles (18 September 2001). Musée des Instruments de Musique: Cornemuses européennes. Editions Mardaga. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-2-87009-786-1. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  3. ^ Société de Géographie de Rochefort (1892). Bulletin. pp. 132–. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  4. ^ Carl Waldman; Catherine Mason (April 2006). Encyclopedia of European peoples. Infobase Publishing. pp. 518–. ISBN 978-0-8160-4964-6. Retrieved 25 April 2011.