Tulum (bagpipe)
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The Tulum is a musical instrument, a form of bagpipe from Turkey. It is droneless with two parallel chanters, usually played by the Pontian Greeks, Laz and Hamsheni people. In Pazar (former Athena)and Çamlıhemşin, and in the villages of the Tatos range (the watersheed between the provinces of Rize and Erzurum), however, the term tulum zurna has not heard, either from villagers or from the pipers themselves. The tulum is the ,instrument of the semi-migrant, stock-raising population of the north-eastern provinces of Anatolia and, like the kemençe its area, its imposes its style on the whole of the dance and entertaintment music of those for whom it is "our music".[1].
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[edit] Terminology
- Tulum duduki (Ottoman)[2].
- Guda (Laz)
- Dankio (Pontic Greek, Romeika)
- Gaida (Bulgarian)
- Gajde (Macedonian)
- Parakapzuk (Armenian)
- Gudastvri (Georgian)
- Tsimboni (Artvin, Adjaria)
- Shuvyr (Adige, North Circassins)
- Sahbr, Shapar (Chuvash Turks)
- Duda (Magyar)
- Tulug (Azerbaijan)
[edit] Etymology
< Turkish tulum "a skin container" from Xakaz dialect[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Picken, Laurence. Folk Music Instruments of Turkey. Oxford University Press. London. p. 547
- ^ Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz Ansiklopedik Sözlük. Istanbul. 2005 pp.1119-1122
- ^ Gerard Clauson. An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish. Oxford University Press. 1972. p. 500
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[edit] External links
- Struck instruments: Santur
