The ''zukra'' (or ''zokra'' or ''zoughara'', ) is a Libyan
bagpipe
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...
with a double-chanter terminating in two cow horns; it is similar in construction to the Tunisian ''
mizwad''.
The instrument is played as a bagpipe in the south and west of Libya, but played by mouth without a bag (as a
double clarinet The term double clarinet refers to any of several woodwind instruments consisting of two parallel pipes made of cane, bird bone, or metal, played simultaneously, with a single reed for each. Commonly, there are five or six tone holes in each pipe, ...
) in the east.
The instrument is played at feasts, weddings, and funerals.
See also
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Mizwad
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Gaida
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Nor ...
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Rhaita
The ''rhaita'' or ''ghaita'' () is a double reed instrument from West North Africa, specifically Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. It is nearly identical in construction to the Arabic '' mizmar'' and the Turkish '' zurna''. The distinctive name owe ...
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Mizmar (instrument)
In Arabic music, a ''mizmār'' (; plural مَزَامِير ''mazāmīr'') is any single or double reed wind instrument. In Egypt, the term ''mizmar'' usually refers to the conical shawm that is called ''zurna'' in Turkey and Armenia.
The mizmar ...
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Bagpipes
North African musical instruments
Libyan musical instruments
Arabic musical instruments
Double-reed instruments
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