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One little mistake. Lots of Armenians with their last name end with ov did take because they want it. I MIGHT be wrong, but weren't they forcing Armenians to change yan/ian to ov in Azerbaijan? At least, I know that all Armenians from Azerbaijan have it. It is impossible that they all changed to it with their own will.

I was wondering.. Here in USA there are Armenian last names that end with ian and yan. What is a difference? How do we get our last names spelled differently and why? It is pronounced the same, I think, yet my last name is Sarkisyan and there is a family in my building who's last name is spelled Sarkisian. There are also names that end with yanc/ianc. Like Volodya Babayanc. Any information on that? What do you think? PS: Here is also something else I want to share. This article talks about the Armenian last names. I found it interesting.

Hello, My parents and I were born outside of Armenia (Uzbekistan). Not only I've never played the instrument, I never held it in my hand. There are very few Armenians, in Uzbekistan, that can play it at all. I always liked the music, but now that I am in US, I got to learn more about Duduk. Ability to get famous Armenian artist's CDs got me to love the instrument and the music to the point that I want to get one. I will be happy just by having one on a shelf, or something, but I want to try to learn playing it. I just learned that there are several keys (kinds) of duduks. As far as I understand every key represents a specific sound that you can get out of the instrument, so I have some questions about that: 1) Is there any place I can go on the internet to find out how every kind of key sounds? So that I can choose one that I like and buy it. 2) Is there any difference between them accept the kind of sound? Is it harder to learn to play some specific keys? 3) I was looking on ebay for duduks and I really liked how this two look: for some reason I can't post links in it. when I post ebay links it send you to an error page =/. basically if you go to www.ebay.com and search with a keyword "Duduk" they are almost on top with these preview images: http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8352/33019790641280801kc7.jpg http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9828/33019819737480801rw3.jpg These duduks are by master SIMON (Andranik Simonian). I think both are the same, accept one is engraved. A nice addition is that the seller adds a shvi and some other useful stuff. They offer different keys for each one of them, so I can choose which key later when I decide on the keys. Is one of these two choices are OK duduks for a beginner like me? 4) Anything else I should consider? If someone could answer me those 4 questions I would be very thankful! I would also listen to any kind of other notices or suggestions with a great appreciation. Thank You.