Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2003/04

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] duduk; was: Anecdote - Music touches almost everything
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:36:56 -0400

The Armenian duduk (similar to Turkish mey) is sort of related to the
clarinet. Although it has a (detachable) double reed made from a single piece
of Arundo donax, the rest of the bore is cylindrical, and it gets a
surprisingly low pitch for such a short instrument. I don't think it
overblows at all.

--Doug Sears

> Not to mention, this evening I'm going to the local MultiCultural Center
> to hear an Armenian band whose leader plays the "duduk", which I believe
> is a primitive single-reed instrument where the reed is whittled
> directly from the bamboo body and is not detachable. I'm wondering
> whether it's the same instrument that somebody here (Jim Hobby?)
> described buying for $10 in the Philippines? I'll ask if it overblows
> the octave or twelfth, if it's not obvious from the performance.

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