Shyuvr Explained

Shyuvr
Classification:	Bagpiping
Related:	Bock (Czech) Cimpoi (Romanian) Duda (Hungarian/Polish) Koza (Polish) Diple (Dalmatian Coast) Mih (Istrian) Tulum (Turkish and Pontic) Tsambouna (Dodecanese and Cyclades) Askomandoura (Crete) Gajdy (Polish/Czech/Slovak) Gaita (Galician)([Asturian]) Surle (Serbian/Croatian) Mezoued/Zukra (Northern Africa) Guda, tulum (Laz people) Dankiyo, zimpona (Pontic) Parkapzuk (Armenia) Gudastviri (Georgia (country)) Tsimboni (Georgia (country))(Adjara) Sahbr, Shapar (Chuvashia) Tulug (Azerbaijan) Volynka (Ukrainian: Волинка), (Russian: Волынка) (Ukraine, Russia) Swedish bagpipes (Sweden) Ney anban(Iran)

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 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.^[1] The pipe is almost always played with the tumyr, a Mari drum.^[2]

An 1892 French work noted that the Mari had developed three instruments: a cithare (zither or cittern), bagpipe, and drum.^[3] A later English work makes a similar statement, saying that the Mari have two instruments unique to their culture: the kusle mult-stringed zither, and the shyuvr bagpipe.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation (France). Musée. Gustave Chouquet. Gustave Chouquet. Le musée du Conservatoire national de musique: Catalogue descriptif et raisonne. Supplement. 25 April 2011. 1894. Firmin-Didot. 67–.
2. Book: Malou Haine . Hubert Boone . Isabelle Deleuse . Géry Dumoulin . Wim Bosmans . Karel Moens . Anja Van Lerberghe . Ferdinand J De Hen . Pascale Vandervellen . Musée Instrumental (Bruxelles . Musée des Instruments de Musique: Cornemuses européennes. 29 May 2011. 18 September 2001. Editions Mardaga. 978-2-87009-786-1. 6–.
3. Book: Société de Géographie de Rochefort. Bulletin. 25 April 2011. 1892. 132–.
4. Book: Carl Waldman. Catherine Mason. Encyclopedia of European peoples. 25 April 2011. April 2006. Infobase Publishing. 978-0-8160-4964-6. 518–.