Shyuvr
The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources) 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. The pipe is almost always played with the tumyr, a Mari drum.
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The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources) 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. The pipe is almost always played with the tumyr, a Mari drum.
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An 1892 French work noted that the Mari had developed three instruments: a cithare (zither or cittern), bagpipe, and drum. 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.
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Key facts
• Name — Shyuvr • Classification — *Bagpiping • Related — *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, (Ukraine, Russia) • Swedish bagpipes (Sweden) • Ney anban(Iran)
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