Duduk          

      The Duduk Historically Legendary Since Antiquity As A  (Tsiranapogh) Could Be Aancient Woodwind Native To Hayastan. Variations Of It Square Measure Fashionable In Jap Europe, The Center East And Central Asia.

       It Is A Foreign Relative Of East Asian Instruments, Like The Chinese Guanzi, The Korean Piri And Therefore The Japanese Hichiriki. Not Like Different Double Reed Instruments Like The Double-Reed Instrument Or Hautbois, The Duduk features A Terribly Giant (In Proportion To The Instrument) And Unflattened Reed, And Is Cylindrical In Form (Not Conical) Giving It A High Quality Nearer To A Single-Reed Woodwind Or Single-Reed Woodwind Than A Double-Reed.

      In 2005, United Nations Agency Declared The Armenian Duduk Music As A Masterpiece Of The Intangible Heritage Of Humanity.

       Armenian Hautboy. A Armenian Single Or Double Reed Instrument Manufactured From Apricot Wood With A Sound That Incorporates A Anthropomorphous Voice Quality. It's A Cylindrical Wood Pipe, A Broad Reed And 9 Holes (8 Finger-Holes And One Thumb-Hole). It's A Heat, Soft, Slightly Nasal Timber And Full Tone. This Instrument Is Equally Used For Slow Lyrical Tunes (Accompanying People Songs) And Quicker Dance-Tunes And It's Conjointly Vie Solo. The standardisation Is Essentially Untempered Diatonic, Although Chromatic Notes May Be Obtained By Part Gap Or Closing The Finger Holes. The Double Reed May Be A Slit-Tube-Like Reed.

              No Different Device Is In A Position To Convey The Emotions Of The Armenian Folks Therefore Honestly And Eloquently Because The Duduk, Born Within The Early Eons Of Armenian History, It's Strictly Armenian. Attributable To Its Redolent And Colour ful Timber And Heat Sound, The Duduk Has Become A Part Of Lifestyle Inrepublic Of Armenia. Today, No Festal Occasion, Reception Or Family Feast Is Complete While Not A Dudukist.

       The Duduk Could Be A Type Of Hautbois Hand-Made Nearly Always Of Apricot Wood, With A 1,500-Year History Behind It. The Duduk Is Strictly Armenian. Traveling Armenians Have Taken It To Persia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, The Center East And As So Much Because The Balkans, Wherever Derivatives Ar Contend. The Instrument Itself Is Solely A Hollow Pipe With Eight Finger Holes On The Top Side And One Thumb Hole On Very Cheap. It's A Heat, Soft, Slightly Nasal Timber, However It's Capable Of A Wide-Range Of Melodies And Drone Notes Sustained For Long Periods Of Your Time. It's invariably Contend With The Accompaniment Of A Second 'Dum Duduk,' Which Supplies The Music Associate Energy And Tonic Atmosphere, Ever-Changing The Size Harmoniously With The Principal Duduk.

       The Duduk Is Made In 3 Sizes, Starting From Eleven To Sixteen Inches. It Needs A Selected Style Of Double Reed, Categorised As A Split Or Slit-Tube Reed. As A Instrument, It's Not Modified Through The Centuries, However The Style Of Enjoying It's Been Formed And Its Sound Has Been Improved. Its Vary Is Merely One Octave; But, It Needs extended Ability To Play, - Its Dynamics Controlled By Perpetually Adjusting The Lips And Fingers. The Calibration Is Largely Untempered And Diatonic, Although Chromatic Notes Is Also Obtained By Partly Covering The Finger Holes.
      The Duduk Repertoire Consists Of People Ballads Likewise As Upbeat Popular Music. Composers Have Even Written musical Group Items For The Instrument.