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Swedish bagpipes Swedish bagpipes (säckpipa, sv, svensk säckpipa, or ''dråmba'', ''koppe'', ''posu'', or ''bälgpipa'') are a variety of bagpipes from Sweden. The term itself generically translates to "bagpipes" in Swedish, but is used in English to describe t ...
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Ney anban The ''ney'' ( fa, Ney/نی, ar, Al-Nāy/الناي), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Persian music and Arabic music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continually ...
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) 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 The Mari El Republic (russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, ''Respublika Mariy El''; Meadow Mari: ; Hill Mari: ) is a republic of Russia. It is in the European Russia region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga Rive ...
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 Tumyr ( chm, тумыр) or tyumyr (''тюмыр'') are a type of Mari two-sided drums. The Mari ''shyuvr The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources, russian: Шувыр) is a type of bagpipe of the Mari people, a Volga-Finnic people livi ...
'', a Mari drum. 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 Kusle ( Meadow Mari: ''кӱсле'', Northwestern Mari: ''кӹсле'' or ''кӹслӓ'') or karsh (Meadow and Northwestern Mari: ''кӓрш'') is a Mari plucked string instrument (chordophone). It has 12-20 strings and is shaped like a semi- ...
'' mult-stringed zither, and the shyuvr bagpipe.


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