Tulum (bagpipe)

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A Laz tulum player from Ardeşen, Rize, Turkey
A Laz tulum player from Ardeşen, Rize, Turkey

The tulum (guda (გუდა) in Laz) is a musical instrument, a form of bagpipe from Turkey. It is droneless with two parallel chanters, usually played by the Pontic Greeks (particularly Chaldians), Laz and Hamsheni people. It is a prominent instrument in the music of Pazar (former Atina), Hemşin, Çamlıhemşin (former Vije), Ardeşen (former Artaşeni), Fındıklı (former Viзe), Arhavi (former Arxabi), Hopa (former Xopa), partly in other districts of Artvin and in the villages of the Tatos range (the watershed between the provinces of Rize and Erzurum) of İspir. Tulum is the instrument of the transhumant 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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Turkish tulum "a skin container" from Khakas.[3]

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  1. ^ Picken, Laurence. Folk Music Instruments of Turkey. Oxford University Press. London. p. 547
  2. ^ Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz Ansiklopedik Sözlük. Istanbul. 2005 pp.1119-1122
  3. ^ Gerard Clauson. An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish. Oxford University Press. 1972. p. 500

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