Tulum (bagpipe)

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Tulum
Classification
  • Bagpiping
Related instruments
Laz musician Birol Topaloglu plays the tulum
Hemshin
musician Behçet Gülas plays the tulum

The tulum (

transhumant population of the northeastern provinces of Anatolia and, like the kemençe in its area, the tulum imposes its style on all the dance and entertainment music of those for whom it is "our music".[1]

Terminology

Some of the names of bagpipes from the Near East include:

Etymology

Turkish tulum is "a skin container".[3]

See also

Notes

  1. Oxford University
    Press. London. p. 547
  2. ^ Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz Ansiklopedik Sözlük. Istanbul. 2005 pp.1119-1122
  3. ^ An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish. Oxford University Press. 1972. p. 500

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