Parkapzuk

[Joan]

Recently I ordered an armenian bagpipe -parkapzuk- to www.duduk.com, they are in the United States. This instrument has a single chanter, like a pku (pzuk) attached to the bag. I knew that the traditional parkapzuk has a double chanter, similar to georgian chiboni or turkish tulum.

What I would like to know is if the parkapzuk that I bought is also a traditional kind in Armenia. Also I would like to know where can I find and order a double chanter parkapzuk.

Many thanks and best regards,

Joan J. Silvestre.

[bell-the-cat]

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Toot Toot!

[bell-the-cat]

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NB: "tulum in Turkey" would be more accurate than saying "Turkish tulum".

[bell-the-cat]

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The "Armenian" bagpipes here have a single chanter, and a drone.
I've a feeling they are not a traditional design - the tulum in Turkey doesn't have a drone, and neither do all those in old photos of Caucasian pagpipes that I have seen.
Does your one have a drone?

[Joan]

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NB: "tulum in Turkey" would be more accurate than saying "Turkish tulum".

Many thanks for the pics, bell-the-cat. I didn't know any of them (in despite of I have searched the net many many times).

Yes, you're right. Tulum is not a turkish instrument, in the sense that they didn't develope it. Maybe many turks play it in Turkey and Adzerbaijan today, but it is older in origin, played by Pontus greeks, lazuri, abjazian, adzharian, armenian, assyrian... original peoples of Anatolia and Caucasus.

I see that your pic of the armenian player is of a double chanter (tulum like) bagpipe. Do you know something about my single chanter (pku-like) bagpipe? I find it beautiful with its sound and aspect. I suspect that it is not a traditional form of armenian bagpipe, but really I don't mind. Now I would like to get a double chanter one, armenian of course. I build my own instruments and I have got drawings of tulum with measurements, but I like to collect original ones.

Thanks a lot,
Joan.

[Joan]

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The "Armenian" bagpipes here have a single chanter, and a drone.
I've a feeling they are not a traditional design - the tulum in Turkey doesn't have a drone, and neither do all those in old photos of Caucasian pagpipes that I have seen.
Does your one have a drone?

I did know this last pic. It is supposed that shows people from Arzakh (Nag-khabg.) in an armenian stamp.

It is hard to me to believe that the true bagpipe has a drone like that in such position, but really I don't know. My bagpipe has only one chanter and no drone. The chanter and the blow pipe are in both forelegs of the goatskin. In the head position there is a wooden disk.

[bell-the-cat]

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I did know this last pic. It is supposed that shows people from Arzakh (Nag-khabg.) in an armenian stamp.

I have it as a postcard, without the stamp, but on the back it says "Armenian national costume of Javakhk". Javakhk is the mostly Armenian-populated region in south-western Georgia, north of Armenia's Shirak region.

[bell-the-cat]

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Sorry, I don't know anything about the single-chanter ones.

I've just remembered that last year I saw some bagpipes in a museum in Naxchivan, but I can't remember if they were single or double chanter ones.

Hemshinli double-chanter bagpipe player:

The Tulum bagpipes seem to come in two sizes, this is a small one.

I have got other pictures, but my scanner has not been working properly for the past few months and have not yet got round to buying a new one. So I can't post them.

[Joan]

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I have it as a postcard, without the stamp, but on the back it says "Armenian national costume of Javakhk". Javakhk is the mostly Armenian-populated region in south-western Georgia, north of Armenia's Shirak region.

That's funny then. Here is the stamp. It seems that these people live in different regions at the same time!

[bell-the-cat]

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Another postcard, which I have an actual copy of.
But because of the scanner problem this is the only picture I can post at the moment.