The sring ( hy, սրինգ, also transliterated as ) is a shepherd's flute originating in
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ...
. Sring is also the common term for end-blown flutes in general.
These flutes are made either of a stork bone, bamboo, wood from the apricot tree or cane and have or eight finger holes, producing a diatonic scale. The
Armenian musicologist
Komitas believed that the sring was the most characteristic among the Armenian instruments.
Blul
The ' instrument, which is similar in structure to the
kaval
The kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey and Armenia). The ka ...
, is a particular variety of the sring family of flutes. It is often considered a modern evolution of the medieval sring,
with the primary differences being the presence of ring-shaped zones, both ends being thickened, and the resulting sound being characterized as velvety and slightly muted.
References
External links
Armenian Blul-Sring Combo
Armenian musical instruments
End-blown flutes
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