ZURNA + PARKAPZUK

[Guest]

Hello ! My name is Ilia. I live in Israel.

My hobby is collecting and playing Oriental

instruments. I play doudouk and shvi, and

now I brought zourna & parkapzuk from Armenia. Can anybody answer some questions about how to play these instruments?

My email : imazia@hotmail.com.

Thanks.

[Guest]

Hi Ilia, welcome to hye forum,,.

I love instruments too but I can't really help that much. I know two people that can, though. There names are MosJan and MJ, they know about the armenian duduk and others. I think you'd actually find it useful if you visited the armenian duduk thread !

[Guest]

Hi Ilia,

 

BTW you can also speak Tat or Georgian with me

 

Duduk is made out of apicoat wood. The Armenian Duduk is called Duduk by the Turks, Tutek by the Azeri's Also Duduk is called Gharaney by the Azeri's and Persians, Georgians call it Duduki but that sounds different than the Armenian Duduk (is less bass).

 

Zurna is a long tube instrument, you play it as clarinet, it sounds more high tonic than clarinet. The Azeri's, Persians and daghestani's as well as the Khorezmians, use it occasinally as a prelude to the melody, but the Armenians, kurds and the Azeri's of Naxjevan as well as the Laz play it in the rythm itself, in this case it is a replacement of the bagpipe which is now almost didtinct in this region.

 

this was what I knew about it

[Guest]

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Originally posted by ilia:
Hello ! My name is Ilia. I live in Israel.
My hobby is collecting and playing Oriental
instruments. I play doudouk and shvi, and
now I brought zourna & parkapzuk from Armenia. Can anybody answer some questions about how to play these instruments?
My email : imazia@hotmail.com.
Thanks.

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Helo Ilia & welcome to Hye Forum

i do not have much info on Parrkpzuk - on haw to play -etc.
Us for zurna stop by at this addres -
http://www.armenians.com/Arm-music-ins/Zur...INFO/index.html
this is haw much i know on zurna.


Iranyar jun Zurna is nothing lie a clarinet- #1 The Zurna is a double reed instrument with a piercing tone

#2 tubular body with finger holes like in a flute. The body is of a progressively opening type.

#3 #1 Obo #2Clarinet #3saxaphone #4 Paku #5 Armenian Parkapzuk #6 Tsiranapor are related to zurna, except som of these use flat reeds.

#4 In order to play zurna, duduk, you MUST learn to breath circularly

[Guest]

Mosjan, I know the difference between clarinet and Zurna, but i can't describe the shape in English, btw I think nothing can beat the Kamanche of armenia, I realy like it that in Armenia they still play Kamanche and not western Violin like in Iran.

Mosjan a Q are they also playing Gheychak, Kaychak, Gaychak or any other spelling in Armenia? it is smaller than kamancha and sounds a higher tone like kamanche of the laz and the pontic greeks, but it has a round shap?

 

Ilia, are you originally Russianspeaking or you speak russian because you lived in leningrad/st. petersburg?

[Guest]

Thank you, guys, for reply. Actually I have

more specific questions to the people

who do play these instruments. I know for

sure how they look like and how they sound,

cause I have them and I can play some of them, I learned to play doudouk with teachers

here and in Erevan.

Dear Iranyar I can't speak no Tat no Georgian, just Russian, Hebrew and English, I was born in Leningrad.

Thanks again. Bye.