Shyuvr

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 tubs 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]

References

1. ^ Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation (France). Musée; Gustave Chouquet (1894). Le musée du Conservatoire national de musique: Catalogue descriptif et raisonne. Supplement. Firmin-Didot. pp. 67–. http://books.google.com/books?id=03sIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA67. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
2. ^ Malou Haine, Hubert Boone, Isabelle Deleuse, Géry Dumoulin, Wim Bosmans, Karel Moens, Anja Van Lerberghe, Ferdinand J De Hen, Pascale Vandervellen, Musée Instrumental (Bruxelles (18 September 2001). Musée des Instruments de Musique: Cornemuses européennes. Editions Mardaga. pp. 6–. ISBN 9782870097861. http://books.google.com/books?id=83KGmlZgBnYC&pg=PA6. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
3. ^ Société de Géographie de Rochefort (1892). Bulletin. pp. 132–. http://books.google.com/books?id=edOfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA132. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
4. ^ Carl Waldman; Catherine Mason (April 2006). Encyclopedia of European peoples. Infobase Publishing. pp. 518–. ISBN 9780816049646. http://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC&pg=PA518. Retrieved 25 April 2011.