I highly recommend the Children of Dune soundtrack, and the battlestar galactica soundtrack if you want to hear beautiful Duduk being played... Ian, what is an update on your playing? get soem good sounds out of it?
ok, I just got my duduk in the mail today! so excited...it smells like fire and smoke.. I guess that is how you make them in Armenia but it sounds so beautiful when played correctly.. ive been trying to hack at it and play for about 20 minutes and am really working on gettign a decent sound out of it.. I heard you drop some water into the reed first to wet it then play.
i happen to know for a fact that MrDjrob is correct, this is in fact an Armenian Instrument dating back some 3000 years! So indeed it is a beautiful and Ancient instrument,so plz lets just enjoy the music and fight or argue about who did what to whom,but be thankful we have life to enjoy such gifts that have been givin to us.
Duduk dot com makes something they call a Clarduk, that's basically a duduk with a clarinet mouthpiece. I figure that'll help with the brain damage thing lol.
1) Don't use your teeth. If you watch other videos of masters, they puff out their cheeks and use only their lips to play. that means you need to strengthen your lips and cheeks but thats the way to get the correct sound.
2) use the fingertips on the top hand and the middle-section "cushion" of the fingers on the lower hand.
3) when doing half-holes: for top hand, lift the fingertip vertically. for lower hand, tilt it horizontally.
Very good performance! I'm more than a year to play the duduk. I'm from Russia! I really enjoyed your performance, but there are small errors! Incorrect vibrato and air supply. You need cheeks inflating :))) But in general - it is excellent! You feel the sound of this instrument!!! And this is most important!
What notes does that play. I mean without half-holing or cross fingering or anything, just from all closed to all open. I'm trying to figure out new scales for a research project.
@Ferruchio Yup. I see that. I'm just trying to figure the scale out so I can make a sideblown flute with the same scale. I have no experience with reed instruments and would pass out trying out a duduk. Flutes however, I got in the bag. Quenas to dizis to shakuhatchis to kavals and most stuff in between. I just like the note progression a duduk has, and want to emulate it. Maybe I oughta try a shvi or a bloul...
@coyotecrow4 There ara a bunch of websites on duduks online that explain the scale...just google it. I play the shvi as well its pretty easy. Its just like a recorder...good luck with the bloul though...Iv been trying to get a sound out of one for 2 months now....nothing. Its so hard I think lessons are required for this instrument.
@Ferruchio If the bloul is anything like a kaval, which folks tell me it is, you have to purse your lips slightly, like your'e whistling, and blow against the inner edge of one side. I usually blow against the left side, but then again, I learned everything backwards. I even play with my left hand on the bottom, right hand on top. Most folks tell me that's bad form, but after doing it for 8 years, I can't break the habit. I'm trying to make one outta PVC, but I have to get the scale right first.
Hey I got my duduk too. Wow it is beautiful and imagine I played the whole day and I manage to play it... There are also some intruction of how to play in youtube. But what I wonder is why people play only using 8 holes while using the 9 holes (using both pinkys) is just a matter of getting used to.
Very nice for first day. Idk if you know this already but the more u slide down the oval wooden thing on the top the less blowing power is required. Great vid and good job on the research.
Hi, so far I only played the piano and the flute but I have no experience in playing any reed instrument.. But I love the sound of th duduk. Do you think it would be necesary to play other reed instruments first?
@JosdeBuck if you play the flute then picking up another woodwind will not be totally alien to you but it will obviously be difficult for the first few months to play the double reed. but if you stick with it you will be great!
Great video Ian. I just received mine as well and your video was very helpful. I think the Fawn's lullaby in Narnia was a Duduk. I wanted whatever that instrument was since I heard that sound.
dude great job! im trying to learn duduk too and something i found helpful is placing your lips farther down the mouthpiece. it gives better control for vibrato and just sounds fuller. I hope that helps! keep it up man, God Bless
What are the notes in the scale? Not with cross fingering, just uncovering one hole at a time. I watched your hands and you didn't look like you skipped around too much. It seems like a very unique scale, and one I'd like to try and replicate.
OK WE GET THAT THE DUDUK IS AN ARMENIAN INSTRUMENT!
but you cannot tell anyone that the duduk is only for Armenians to play. Music is universal and for anybody. Nobody has the right to tell another person that they cannot play this beautiful instrument just because they are not Armenian.
By the way, im Turkish and i recognize the Armenian Genocide as a Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.
@wizmurat You're a good person wizmurat. I don't think anyone was saying Ian shouldn't play the duduk, I encourage anyone that wants to give it a try to go for it, otherwise this beautiful instrument will decline in use and popularity.
@wizmurat Music is the universal language....there are no barriers. I'm Armenian and i enjoy Turkish music I actually play the Saz which is a Turkish instrument.
What I love about this instrument is it almost doesn't sound real. Does anyone understand what i mean? It's just this smallish recorder shaped instrument with a large double reed that produces a sound that I would use to describe the wind if it had emotions.
NICE! just bought one via internet> Never play with my mouth; i'm a guitarist,pianist,accordionist, steeldrummist and so on. I hope I can produce somthing on the duduk like you do!
not to get you greeks or turks sad or anything but Duduk is an Armenian instrument that was invented by Armenians thousands of years ago. Keep that instrument well its a masterpiece.
My guess is that while playing u were putting all ur effort into blowing uvdidnt realize the amazing, peaceful and breath taking sound uvwere producing, I justvbought one if these online and I can't wait to take it camping and to sit down on the top of a hill somewhere and play it :)
what an armenian instrument? whahah it's a turkish instrument retard you guyz have it too but that's because the culture i think even your tiny land was from the turks at the time so just stop to try owning the turkish duduk asshole, even the name duduk is turkish it means flute so.....
@oes121189 Considering UNESCO has recognized the Duduk of being Armenian in origin I don't know what leg you have to stand on. Also while I am here, let me teach you a few things about your people. You come from Mongolia, a wandering nomadic horde that began expansion in the 6th century AD. You don't have a culture, only things you have were picked up and stolen along the way from Mongolia. The Duduk existed long before any Turks came to steal, kill, and pillage.
what an armenian instrument? whahah it's a turkish instrument retard you guyz have it too but that's because the culture i think even your tiny land was from the turks at the time so just stop to try owning the turkish duduk asshole
@ExosMxRevolution Its Georgian armenians are georgians who lost their language and became completely Indo-IRanian you are 90 % Persian and this is not Persian
"it makes me happy" lol Awesome bro, I actually liked the stuff you did. And sorry for all the azeri/turkic horde bothering you, you're absolutely right this instrument originated in Armenia its recorded in ancient manuscripts and rock carvings predating the birth of Christ when the word turk wasn't even invented. Also it's made of apricot wood for a reason the Latin name for apricot is Prunus Armeniaca. But, good job on your first day I know I would do much worse lol. Take care!
looks like he's about to pop! lol duduk is a difficult instrument to play. you have to let your cheeks fill with air. don't tighten your cheek muscles like sax or clarinet. watch Jivan Gasparian
From where did you get this thing? I dying to get my hands on one, but i don't want to buy one without any sort of knowledge about quality. Got any tips?
Awesome playing for being the first day of play. Good luck!
Please Someone can make a movie with duduk, show where he/she sets fingers to make good song... easy fingermoves but nice song :( please someone ? im a newby and need a song for school PLEASE ? ive got no problems with my breath... just the fingers
IAN, I have been looking for buying one, but I want to make sure I buy a real one and not a sourvenir....I play QUENA ( flute from the Andes) and It was hard to play...but I am really excited about starting with the DUDUK. Could you please tell me where did you buy yours? Thanks,
elГЕЙ89!И здесь армянский член сосёш.Что мне заблакировал,что, правда твои ослинные глаза колят,Если ты мужик,поговорим а если ты пидорь ,то сестрой позноком
@elgun89 thousands of years ago Armenians were playing the duduk, there is recorded and documented proof of that. Thousands of years ago the Azeri people, their DNA and by extension any culture associated with them, did not exist.
Back to reality where most of us live, it is, therefore, impossible to "imitate" an instrument from a nation when that nation did not exist for another thousands of so years. Enjoy the music this guy is playing rather than bringing in ur nationalistic claims
duduk name which language of cross AZERI. why you tell this is armenia instrument this is rong god see...this is AZERI instrument if you want go to ask you grandfather duduk which country instrument.....of cross you grandfather speak AZERI instrument ok
This comment is for PARVIZABDULLAYEV: You're an IDIOT, Duduk is Armenian, you TURKS stole this from us, like you stole everything else we had, And yes, GOD is wathcing you, so you will get yours soon, KUNEM DSER MAMAN, TURK BOZI TGHEK.
@PARVIZABDULLAYEV hey u azeri fuck face the duduk is an armenian instrument armenians have been around a lot longer than u azeri fuckers and all ur lands are part of historical armenia. so dont try to make up lies u donkey ass. nayi bozi tghah mi had esh kunel e ko mayret yev 9 amis hedo du ir bootsen trir
ian u r first class teacher onestly beleve me ur also creative n maximise ur talents n in touch with reality share ur knowledge of what u know no matter how little r howe much n project ...all the best my freind
very good, for the first time, except, you cover the hols with the wrong parts of your fingers, you have to cover the holes with the part of your finger that falls between the first and second joint from teh tip of ur finger. watch other videos, pay attention on fingers, you'll see
Hey man you should retire, this Duduk is the oldest Armenian instrument, No is not good cause the Duduk meant for people pain so dont add new things. Sorry man.
i think you did good, just need to train my friend. Thank you for your interest. You need to visite an Armenian, they will teach you, there are many duduk players in California. Just ask some Armenians they will bring you to a professional player who will be more than happy to teach you.
Well said, i bet you people would be surprised how much time you have to spend learning an instrument. Just ask a pro how much they have sacrificed. When learning an instrument your greatest enemy is patience and time. Keep it up.
Dude don't listen to these negative pricks. Just keep practicing and you'll be great at it. you actually sounded very very good for your first time. It is a really hard intrument to play so it does take a lot of effort to play this. I know a lot of pros that have perffected the DUDUK, and they still practice everyday. Keep it up.
elgun your the biggest clown in the history of youtube. Seriously join the circus maybe they will listen to your azeri fairy tales and how the first man on mars was mehmed gagarinoglu. lmao xD
lmao duduk was introduced to koreans only recently or through the silk road you moron before turks even existed, does duduk even sound korean to you?? lol stupid mongol. haha everything about the duduk is Armenian and every record pre-roman times that indicate to Armenia. That was when you morons were sniffing each others rear ends lol
lmao what proof?? you have no common logic and secondly its not a tool its an insturment and it orgiinates in Armenia. the duduk existed before the word "turk" had a place, so how could the duduk be azeri????? it never was and never will be. Even the greatest duduk players were Armenian. why?? because azeris coudln't even spell DUDUK. stupid animals .lol
Besides the DUDUk originating in ARMENIA, it is made from peach tree, now, I know you AZERI pricks don't have any peach trees in AZERBAFUCK, so I don't know what you're talking about. SHUT UP AND LET THE GUY TELL HIS STORY, ANNASOON TURKI LAMUK.
The duduk is a form of oboe hand-made almost 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 Middle East and as far as the Balkans, where derivatives are played.
The duduk a double reed, also known as ramish or yegheg in Armenian, is typically 9-14 cm. in length and is surrounded by a thin flexible wood binding that slides along the length of the reed. This binding is used for tuning the duduk as it controls the opening/closing of the reed. The reed itself grows plentifully along the Arax River in Armenia
Yes duduk was and remains Armenian its under UNESCO and it remains an Ancient Armenian insturment. Don't be jelouse after all its only due to envy that you are here. how pathetic lol xD
Duduk is an Armenian word and it will always be an Armenian instruments Azeris have no insturment only Persian insturments. BTW elgun the first man on mars was azeri. xD!!!!!
LMAO xD I know Russian documents you moron, find me such proof, the only documents are bullshti azeri documents, haha your such a clown its unbelievable. Stop jumping from one of your worthless theories to another, its so pathetic. its too funny how bad you embarss yourself. hahaha wow.
Its funny how you jump from one subject saying BS how duduk is azeri. haha through you know well its Armenian. Stop stealing our culturalal aspects, you have not culture and you will remaing Mongols. Seriously why are you even here??? haha just to embarss yourself. Eldun didn't you already make yourself look like a clown??
Yes everyone know that you are mixed with the Frenchmen kurds assyrians Persians turkis arabs the Caucasian people Russian Jews and so on! Here your Armenian nation! Your lobby proves to the world that at you as well as Jews were not the native land! A current people not having the native land have a strong lobby!
and yes turkic=mongol. get a history check. elgun stop being such a prick that you are and check true history not azeri bullshit sites, its so pathetic what you azeris say, keep embarssing yourself azer.
Tell me why you make up 10 different stories on Armenian history?? you can't change history, the culture and instruments such as duduk have always been part of Armenia and will remain.
lmao i don't know history?? more than you do thats for sure, the problem is can you afford a mirror??? plese if you can take a look at it xD your such an azeri clown. Go read your azeri propoganda books maybe it will tell you that the first man on Mars was an Azeri too. xD lol
Their grandfathers have inspired them that type duduk is Armenian! But it not so!! To Armenians and to a head would not come such that there is on the ground such tool!-Armenians go study the history! Or you have forgotten that have moved you from the different countries on territory of Azerbaijan in 18 century?? Azeri-turkiс live on caucasus 2000 and you 300 years!
people of the world nobody cares about Azerbaidjan, xD Djivan Gasparyan is the greatest duduk player in the world. ofcourse from Armenia. The word "balaban" is a fake azerified/turkified name for the Armenian duduk. Secondly Armenia dates back 3,000 years as opposed to azerbaidjan which didn't become a nation only until 1918.
Elgun tell me why Roman records don't indicate to any nation such as Azerbaidjan,?? its funny how your azers don't even know your own history. LMAO azeris were sniffing each others bottoms in Mongolia when Armenia was in the caucusus,. Under Tigran the Great the Armenian duduk was being played. The duduk was first introduced into the Ottomon empire from Armenia in the 16th century, When azerbaidjan didn't even have a place on the map. xD
elgun now your telling me a different story?? what is this??? elgun you don't even know your own history, how dare you change the history of Armenia??? Armenia has been a nation for over three thousand years. Armenia was called Urartu aka Arartia. The Assyrian, Hebrew name for Armenia then it was changed into Armenia by the Romans which Armenia was under the Armenian Orontid dynasty. Get a history check.
It to you was inspired by your historians but there was no such history at you!!! Mongols it NOT turkis remember! They have grasped caucasus and destroyed turkis both in Asia and on caucasus!
your truly retarded, firstly there was no such thing as Turks in Caucusus, Get educated you lack the most common sense, and its not our historians but any historian or any map will indicate that the word "turk" did not exist. It came into Caucusus through Mongols. 100 percent Mongols, and especially azerbaidjan which didn't exist, Caucuses was formed by Armenia, Greece(byzantium), PErsia, and Iberia(Georgia).
elgun my grandfathers are dead, secondly its not our historians its your historians who make you confuesed because they have no back up to their saying and they only do it based on Anti-Armenian propoganda. Any historian will tell you there was no such thing as turks only until the first turkic tribes from Mongolia came in.
haha elgun is the first man in space Azeri too?? his name is probably mehmed gagarinoglu. xD hey azer clown you have and never had history other than the fact that you are from Mongolia. Keep youe jeolousy to yourself and get educated. THe whole world knows the records of the duduk which is a christian instrument and everything points to Armenia. Azerbaidjan didn't exist at all and still is a fake "country".
We not Mongols and not Turks we azeri-turkis! And you descendants of kurds and assyrians are not present such nation as Armenians! Words Armenia this Greek names!
Azeris have caucasian in them, but they are still turkic tribes formed by Persian influence. your Mongols by blood, even your DNA will be closer to a mongol then anyone else here. Even Turks from Turkey are whiter because they mixed with some Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Serbians, etc
I highly recommend the Children of Dune soundtrack, and the battlestar galactica soundtrack if you want to hear beautiful Duduk being played... Ian, what is an update on your playing? get soem good sounds out of it?
iamkevinrusso 1 week ago
ok, I just got my duduk in the mail today! so excited...it smells like fire and smoke.. I guess that is how you make them in Armenia but it sounds so beautiful when played correctly.. ive been trying to hack at it and play for about 20 minutes and am really working on gettign a decent sound out of it.. I heard you drop some water into the reed first to wet it then play.
iamkevinrusso 1 week ago
Great Armenian Instrument. TURKS, STOP BEING RETARDS. YOU GUYS ONLY EAT HUMANS, NOTHING MORE OR LESS
hharutyu 3 months ago
HAYASTAN INSTRUMENT
barrettrifles 3 months ago
правильно ,всемирный Армянский дудук
TheKaifot 3 months ago
i happen to know for a fact that MrDjrob is correct, this is in fact an Armenian Instrument dating back some 3000 years! So indeed it is a beautiful and Ancient instrument,so plz lets just enjoy the music and fight or argue about who did what to whom,but be thankful we have life to enjoy such gifts that have been givin to us.
jediknt6470 5 months ago
Duduk dot com makes something they call a Clarduk, that's basically a duduk with a clarinet mouthpiece. I figure that'll help with the brain damage thing lol.
coyotecrow4 5 months ago
DUDUK THIS ARMENIAN INSTRUMENT OKEY ? OK !
tandem95400 6 months ago
The best player is Iroh :p
grantmitch1 6 months ago
hey were did you get your duduk? and how much was it?
gwood1991 6 months ago
@gwood1991 $50 at ebay incl. shipping fees. I'm getting one!
eriktellhed 4 months ago
IT'S A FUCKING AMERICAN INSTRUMENT STOP ARGUING ABOUT THIS YOU ARE ALL WRONG
jimbobanalbeats 7 months ago
Few notes that might help you out
1) Don't use your teeth. If you watch other videos of masters, they puff out their cheeks and use only their lips to play. that means you need to strengthen your lips and cheeks but thats the way to get the correct sound.
2) use the fingertips on the top hand and the middle-section "cushion" of the fingers on the lower hand.
3) when doing half-holes: for top hand, lift the fingertip vertically. for lower hand, tilt it horizontally.
4) practice :)
fedayi1177 8 months ago
Very good performance! I'm more than a year to play the duduk. I'm from Russia! I really enjoyed your performance, but there are small errors! Incorrect vibrato and air supply. You need cheeks inflating :))) But in general - it is excellent! You feel the sound of this instrument!!! And this is most important!
SergeyKaraev 9 months ago
Pretty good for your first try :)
loyalmo 9 months ago
What notes does that play. I mean without half-holing or cross fingering or anything, just from all closed to all open. I'm trying to figure out new scales for a research project.
coyotecrow4 9 months ago
@coyotecrow4 He doesn't half hole in the video but thats how you get the other notes.
Ferruchio 9 months ago
@Ferruchio Yup. I see that. I'm just trying to figure the scale out so I can make a sideblown flute with the same scale. I have no experience with reed instruments and would pass out trying out a duduk. Flutes however, I got in the bag. Quenas to dizis to shakuhatchis to kavals and most stuff in between. I just like the note progression a duduk has, and want to emulate it. Maybe I oughta try a shvi or a bloul...
coyotecrow4 9 months ago
@coyotecrow4 There ara a bunch of websites on duduks online that explain the scale...just google it. I play the shvi as well its pretty easy. Its just like a recorder...good luck with the bloul though...Iv been trying to get a sound out of one for 2 months now....nothing. Its so hard I think lessons are required for this instrument.
Ferruchio 9 months ago
@Ferruchio If the bloul is anything like a kaval, which folks tell me it is, you have to purse your lips slightly, like your'e whistling, and blow against the inner edge of one side. I usually blow against the left side, but then again, I learned everything backwards. I even play with my left hand on the bottom, right hand on top. Most folks tell me that's bad form, but after doing it for 8 years, I can't break the habit. I'm trying to make one outta PVC, but I have to get the scale right first.
coyotecrow4 9 months ago
your fingers are ugly - this is not duduk method
Infiengham 10 months ago
Look up Jivan or Djivan Gasparyan the Armenian master of duduk.
ovsepyank 11 months ago
Hey I got my duduk too. Wow it is beautiful and imagine I played the whole day and I manage to play it... There are also some intruction of how to play in youtube. But what I wonder is why people play only using 8 holes while using the 9 holes (using both pinkys) is just a matter of getting used to.
JosdeBuck 11 months ago
Duduk isnt for jazz its made for slow traditional music, try looking at some traditional music
miketastic97 1 year ago
Ara du Hayes??? LoL
Pivazi11 1 year ago
@Pivazi11 yete im het es, ha yes hay em
AcesHye818 1 year ago
Very nice for first day. Idk if you know this already but the more u slide down the oval wooden thing on the top the less blowing power is required. Great vid and good job on the research.
AcesHye818 1 year ago
Hi, so far I only played the piano and the flute but I have no experience in playing any reed instrument.. But I love the sound of th duduk. Do you think it would be necesary to play other reed instruments first?
JosdeBuck 1 year ago
@JosdeBuck if you play the flute then picking up another woodwind will not be totally alien to you but it will obviously be difficult for the first few months to play the double reed. but if you stick with it you will be great!
Omgshoes017 1 year ago
Great video Ian. I just received mine as well and your video was very helpful. I think the Fawn's lullaby in Narnia was a Duduk. I wanted whatever that instrument was since I heard that sound.
trystofpraise 1 year ago
dude great job! im trying to learn duduk too and something i found helpful is placing your lips farther down the mouthpiece. it gives better control for vibrato and just sounds fuller. I hope that helps! keep it up man, God Bless
Ono42012 1 year ago
What are the notes in the scale? Not with cross fingering, just uncovering one hole at a time. I watched your hands and you didn't look like you skipped around too much. It seems like a very unique scale, and one I'd like to try and replicate.
coyotecrow4 1 year ago
you are a great man :)
xnairyx 1 year ago
thx man
DjDeLucs 1 year ago
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do you think i could play scottish and irish jigs and reels and such on this thing, i am thinking of buying one you see what do you think peeps,
it is a lovely sound isnt it!
ScottishFiddleLesson 1 year ago
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do you think i could play scottish and irish jigs and reels and such on this thing, i am thinking of buying one you see what do you think peeps,
it is a lovely sound isnt it!
ScottishFiddleLesson 1 year ago
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do you think i could play scottish and irish jigs and reels and such on this thing, i am thinking of buying one you see what do you think peeps,
it is a lovely sound isnt it!
this is great by the way!
ScottishFiddleLesson 1 year ago
OK WE GET THAT THE DUDUK IS AN ARMENIAN INSTRUMENT!
but you cannot tell anyone that the duduk is only for Armenians to play. Music is universal and for anybody. Nobody has the right to tell another person that they cannot play this beautiful instrument just because they are not Armenian.
By the way, im Turkish and i recognize the Armenian Genocide as a Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.
wizmurat 1 year ago 15
@wizmurat you're 100% right and thank you for looking past racial prejudices that both sides have and recognizing the genocide....
with people like you i have hope that armenians and turks will resolve our past and live as brothers again :)
mygoodname 1 year ago
@wizmurat You're a good person wizmurat. I don't think anyone was saying Ian shouldn't play the duduk, I encourage anyone that wants to give it a try to go for it, otherwise this beautiful instrument will decline in use and popularity.
vnahikian4 1 year ago 3
@wizmurat
commited by you turks yes!
ArmenianZipmanwwwi 10 months ago
@wizmurat Music is the universal language....there are no barriers. I'm Armenian and i enjoy Turkish music I actually play the Saz which is a Turkish instrument.
Ferruchio 9 months ago 2
@Ferruchio GOOD ANSWER TO PEOPLE WHO BRAG ABOUT, IAM ASIAN I LOVE ALL KIND OF MUSIC.
kathmandu64 4 months ago
@wizmurat Your comment about the genocide (?) has nothing to do with the video, totally out of context
OttomanZC 3 months ago
@wizmurat Isn't the duduk an armenian instrument?
dkpianist 3 months ago
Good job ! I would like to buy an Armenian Duduk too.
ChrYou3 1 year ago
That duduk is in E or A?
lazlo26 1 year ago
What I love about this instrument is it almost doesn't sound real. Does anyone understand what i mean? It's just this smallish recorder shaped instrument with a large double reed that produces a sound that I would use to describe the wind if it had emotions.
Xternium 1 year ago
NICE! just bought one via internet> Never play with my mouth; i'm a guitarist,pianist,accordionist, steeldrummist and so on. I hope I can produce somthing on the duduk like you do!
piet580 1 year ago
not to get you greeks or turks sad or anything but Duduk is an Armenian instrument that was invented by Armenians thousands of years ago. Keep that instrument well its a masterpiece.
armianskigary818 1 year ago
My guess is that while playing u were putting all ur effort into blowing uvdidnt realize the amazing, peaceful and breath taking sound uvwere producing, I justvbought one if these online and I can't wait to take it camping and to sit down on the top of a hill somewhere and play it :)
wackmestudios 1 year ago
everyone knows that we(the greek) people origionally made it
wannabeKeithMoon 1 year ago
lol poor turks xD trying to change history facts lol
xTheWarlordx 1 year ago
duduk-balaban-zurna AZERBAIJANIAN INSTRUMENT!!!!!!!!
Qaqas116 1 year ago
hey, that's not bad for the first day =) it also looks and sounds like another instrument called balaban.
kuzeydebiryer 1 year ago
what an armenian instrument? whahah it's a turkish instrument retard you guyz have it too but that's because the culture i think even your tiny land was from the turks at the time so just stop to try owning the turkish duduk asshole, even the name duduk is turkish it means flute so.....
oes121189 1 year ago
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vnahikian4 1 year ago
@oes121189 Considering UNESCO has recognized the Duduk of being Armenian in origin I don't know what leg you have to stand on. Also while I am here, let me teach you a few things about your people. You come from Mongolia, a wandering nomadic horde that began expansion in the 6th century AD. You don't have a culture, only things you have were picked up and stolen along the way from Mongolia. The Duduk existed long before any Turks came to steal, kill, and pillage.
vnahikian4 1 year ago 2
what an armenian instrument? whahah it's a turkish instrument retard you guyz have it too but that's because the culture i think even your tiny land was from the turks at the time so just stop to try owning the turkish duduk asshole
oes121189 1 year ago
hey buddy, you have to make your cheeks bigger. Its NOT the same way you play a clarinet.
gevorgd1 1 year ago
i like it :D good job.. i wish i could play like you haha
mane329 1 year ago
your finger positining is wrong. U try to play it like a flute
BATMANLIBATMAN 1 year ago
well done mate
nizam021 1 year ago
its good that you lake this but you mast first leart my frends
vazgendebest 1 year ago
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BATMANLIBATMAN 1 year ago
viva Armenia, viva duduk!!!!!
italiarm 1 year ago 3
it looks like it takes a lot of breath pressure!
lutherdriggers 1 year ago
too much reverb
hellenic300 1 year ago
its a very old instrument and its much harder to play then a saxophone. not bad for a beginner.
mademoisellenikita 1 year ago
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its neither Turkish nor Armenian nor Arabic
its Georgian ancient Meskhian Instrument
GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi 1 year ago
@GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi lmao ... Georgian instrument ? fuck, Wikipedia is your friend, it's armenian
ExosMxRevolution 1 year ago
@ExosMxRevolution Its Georgian armenians are georgians who lost their language and became completely Indo-IRanian you are 90 % Persian and this is not Persian
GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi 1 year ago
"it makes me happy" lol Awesome bro, I actually liked the stuff you did. And sorry for all the azeri/turkic horde bothering you, you're absolutely right this instrument originated in Armenia its recorded in ancient manuscripts and rock carvings predating the birth of Christ when the word turk wasn't even invented. Also it's made of apricot wood for a reason the Latin name for apricot is Prunus Armeniaca. But, good job on your first day I know I would do much worse lol. Take care!
PeopleOfAr 1 year ago
looks like he's about to pop! lol duduk is a difficult instrument to play. you have to let your cheeks fill with air. don't tighten your cheek muscles like sax or clarinet. watch Jivan Gasparian
raymond91201 1 year ago
Duduk sounds beautifull but it really seems you get out of breath when you play it :)
MentalBlue 1 year ago
From where did you get this thing? I dying to get my hands on one, but i don't want to buy one without any sort of knowledge about quality. Got any tips?
Awesome playing for being the first day of play. Good luck!
Ottomannen 1 year ago
wow one day and you got it down pretty good where and how much did you pay and get it thanks calmingwind
CalmingWind 1 year ago
fk off its ARMENIAN!!!!!! FK THE TURKISH LIES! FK OFF AZARBAIJAN
alecjan21 1 year ago 3
pretty good for a beginner
NinaKatarina 1 year ago
Holy crap, this is your first day?
rattusvulpes 1 year ago
Please Someone can make a movie with duduk, show where he/she sets fingers to make good song... easy fingermoves but nice song :( please someone ? im a newby and need a song for school PLEASE ? ive got no problems with my breath... just the fingers
armeniabox 1 year ago
mines pretty hard to play too
you gotta moisten the reed pretty well
also try easing in when you blow cause ig you blow too hard at the start the air pressure will close the reed
hellenic300 1 year ago
i've heard from some people that you shouldn't play it with the tips of your fingers
hellenic300 1 year ago
IAN, I have been looking for buying one, but I want to make sure I buy a real one and not a sourvenir....I play QUENA ( flute from the Andes) and It was hard to play...but I am really excited about starting with the DUDUK. Could you please tell me where did you buy yours? Thanks,
maxismolkin 1 year ago
elГЕЙ89!И здесь армянский член сосёш.Что мне заблакировал,что, правда твои ослинные глаза колят,Если ты мужик,поговорим а если ты пидорь ,то сестрой позноком
64vova 2 years ago
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do not believe Armenian people!!! this Azerbaijani instrument!
elgun89 2 years ago
@elgun89 thousands of years ago Armenians were playing the duduk, there is recorded and documented proof of that. Thousands of years ago the Azeri people, their DNA and by extension any culture associated with them, did not exist.
Back to reality where most of us live, it is, therefore, impossible to "imitate" an instrument from a nation when that nation did not exist for another thousands of so years. Enjoy the music this guy is playing rather than bringing in ur nationalistic claims
AK410 1 year ago
haha what natio are you ian?
AK410 2 years ago
Yours is actually pretty good, I bought two in Armenia but they make no close sound to the one in Gladiator.
ArmenianNetwork 2 years ago
IAN, have you gotten better at it? post up some new videos so we can see you in action bro
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
i am glad you mentioned the history that it originates from armenia, keep practicing the duduk is a great and soulful instrument good first dayy
ungeranthonyxx11 2 years ago
VERY GOOD!!!
jeriwade123 2 years ago
duduk is an Armenian instrument
yerevan4life23 2 years ago
duduk name which language of cross AZERI. why you tell this is armenia instrument this is rong god see...this is AZERI instrument if you want go to ask you grandfather duduk which country instrument.....of cross you grandfather speak AZERI instrument ok
PARVIZABDULLAYEV 2 years ago
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MrDjrob1 2 years ago
This comment is for PARVIZABDULLAYEV: You're an IDIOT, Duduk is Armenian, you TURKS stole this from us, like you stole everything else we had, And yes, GOD is wathcing you, so you will get yours soon, KUNEM DSER MAMAN, TURK BOZI TGHEK.
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
@PARVIZABDULLAYEV hey u azeri fuck face the duduk is an armenian instrument armenians have been around a lot longer than u azeri fuckers and all ur lands are part of historical armenia. so dont try to make up lies u donkey ass. nayi bozi tghah mi had esh kunel e ko mayret yev 9 amis hedo du ir bootsen trir
fatmanarmo94 1 year ago
@fatmanarmo94 HaHa, that's funny bro. I like this comment. It's so true. LOL
MrDjrob1 1 year ago
I am glad for you, my friend, but Duduk not for you. Play on this nstrument, from God.
tiflissam 2 years ago
hey i'm thinking of getting one of those
r they expesnive and where can i get them from?
hellenic300 2 years ago
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michal18c 2 years ago
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michal18c 2 years ago
wow that was really good, keep practicing and you'll reach the level you want to get to soon, give you lots of props
thugballer77 2 years ago
Sound is great with echo. Dukuk is hard to play. Keep practice :)
michal18c 2 years ago
Respect :)
Amgnim 2 years ago
ian u r first class teacher onestly beleve me ur also creative n maximise ur talents n in touch with reality share ur knowledge of what u know no matter how little r howe much n project ...all the best my freind
dublehub 2 years ago
awesome bro. You managed to get a sound out of it and thats a good start :) Not a easy instrument to master.
TheHayasa 2 years ago
seems a lot of effort.. but reely does sound fntstc ian
dublehub 2 years ago
its really hard to get sound out of that thing, respect dude haha
ZodiacEl 2 years ago
very good, for the first time, except, you cover the hols with the wrong parts of your fingers, you have to cover the holes with the part of your finger that falls between the first and second joint from teh tip of ur finger. watch other videos, pay attention on fingers, you'll see
vahagnantonyan 2 years ago
OMG STOP PLEASE !!!
6NaReK6 2 years ago
awesome!
SatinBlkZ 2 years ago
You know this is an Armenian duduk right? Good! : )
SovieTiko310 2 years ago 23
hahah you are trying so hard to get a sound out of it! AWESOME dude
alezanlorenzi 2 years ago
gotta love the echo sounds great for first time.. my grandpa has had a real duduk for a while and has been hiding it from me lmaooo so i found i t=D
azohopar 2 years ago
Hey man you should retire, this Duduk is the oldest Armenian instrument, No is not good cause the Duduk meant for people pain so dont add new things. Sorry man.
haroot49 2 years ago
you wrong art of music is made to do improvisation and if he want to do this way its nothing wrong about
armanx2 2 years ago
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cococody121 2 years ago
Don't let them play "better than thou" on you, it's great you're alive and living, so keep exploring!
FernandRaynaud 2 years ago
i think u did quite a good job for first day ;) add oil (means keep it up)dude!
coolayulung 2 years ago
Ahh, the dramatic flute sound! Neato.
spaznadz 2 years ago
te asa du ur dudukn ur ay esh qunox
Noro1991 2 years ago
damn- you are jacked, whats your workout routine?
XIPM3 2 years ago
just train,...you´ll get better i think.
AgeInd 2 years ago 3
my friend these instrument isnt for you ! !
papikianD 2 years ago
haha that's pretty mean bro.... wow. I've gotten a lot better at it. that was my first day and I didn't know how to play it...u fail
SatinBlkZ 2 years ago
i think you did good, just need to train my friend. Thank you for your interest. You need to visite an Armenian, they will teach you, there are many duduk players in California. Just ask some Armenians they will bring you to a professional player who will be more than happy to teach you.
shagenchik 2 years ago
Well said, i bet you people would be surprised how much time you have to spend learning an instrument. Just ask a pro how much they have sacrificed. When learning an instrument your greatest enemy is patience and time. Keep it up.
djslapdash 2 years ago
Dude don't listen to these negative pricks. Just keep practicing and you'll be great at it. you actually sounded very very good for your first time. It is a really hard intrument to play so it does take a lot of effort to play this. I know a lot of pros that have perffected the DUDUK, and they still practice everyday. Keep it up.
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
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Hahaha its Turkish clowns!
Any clever man in this world knows the duduk from Armenia is coming!
The instrument is more than 3000 years old.
And as long there is not the Turks!
Turks since your just dirt from the gypsies have arisen.
AmageddonMuzik 2 years ago
Hahaha its Turkish clowns!
Any clever man in this world knows the duduk from Armenia is coming!
The instrument is more than 3000 years old.
And as long there is not the Turks!
Turks since your just dirt from the gypsies have arisen.
AmageddonMuzik 2 years ago
elgun your the biggest clown in the history of youtube. Seriously join the circus maybe they will listen to your azeri fairy tales and how the first man on mars was mehmed gagarinoglu. lmao xD
shagenchik 2 years ago
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DUDUK it is the TURKIC TOOL (Azerbaijan) DUDUK even in Korea there is and in Japan a proof to that that DUDUK is TURKIC
elgun89 2 years ago
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DUDUK it is the TURKIC TOOL (Azerbaijan) DUDUK even in Korea there is and in Japan a proof to that that DUDUK is TURKIC
elgun89 2 years ago
lmao duduk was introduced to koreans only recently or through the silk road you moron before turks even existed, does duduk even sound korean to you?? lol stupid mongol. haha everything about the duduk is Armenian and every record pre-roman times that indicate to Armenia. That was when you morons were sniffing each others rear ends lol
shagenchik 2 years ago 2
We have a proof that it is our tool!! And at you only propagation and in language of the proof))
elgun89 2 years ago
lmao what proof?? you have no common logic and secondly its not a tool its an insturment and it orgiinates in Armenia. the duduk existed before the word "turk" had a place, so how could the duduk be azeri????? it never was and never will be. Even the greatest duduk players were Armenian. why?? because azeris coudln't even spell DUDUK. stupid animals .lol
shagenchik 2 years ago
On Fire xDD \m/_ rock on!
Bandjalah 2 years ago
Besides the DUDUk originating in ARMENIA, it is made from peach tree, now, I know you AZERI pricks don't have any peach trees in AZERBAFUCK, so I don't know what you're talking about. SHUT UP AND LET THE GUY TELL HIS STORY, ANNASOON TURKI LAMUK.
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
elgun your videos are as usless as you. xD very pointless, narrowminded and ofcourse only made by azeris themselves. ;)
shagenchik 2 years ago
The duduk is a form of oboe hand-made almost 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 Middle East and as far as the Balkans, where derivatives are played.
shagenchik 2 years ago
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Look my videos you will understand who has created duduk!
elgun89 2 years ago
yes i forgot you created the duduk, lol xD!!!!! thanks proffesor now i know.
shagenchik 2 years ago
Oh yeah, apricot, i said peach tree. I was wrong. good job shagenchik jan.
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
The duduk a double reed, also known as ramish or yegheg in Armenian, is typically 9-14 cm. in length and is surrounded by a thin flexible wood binding that slides along the length of the reed. This binding is used for tuning the duduk as it controls the opening/closing of the reed. The reed itself grows plentifully along the Arax River in Armenia
shagenchik 2 years ago
I really dont care.
shagenchik 2 years ago
hahahahahahahaha elgun your the biggest clown on youtube. yay for azergayjan!!!
shagenchik 2 years ago
hahahahaha shagenchik the ancient Armenian historian wishes to inspire all that duduk is Armenian))) hahahahahh
elgun89 2 years ago
Yes duduk was and remains Armenian its under UNESCO and it remains an Ancient Armenian insturment. Don't be jelouse after all its only due to envy that you are here. how pathetic lol xD
shagenchik 2 years ago
DUDUK (BALABAN) it is Azerbaijan instrument!
elgun89 2 years ago
Duduk is an Armenian word and it will always be an Armenian instruments Azeris have no insturment only Persian insturments. BTW elgun the first man on mars was azeri. xD!!!!!
shagenchik 2 years ago
wtf?? is balaban?? xD hahaha no moron its duduk, its proper Armenian name ;)
shagenchik 2 years ago
ты знаешь русский? You speak Russian?
elgun89 2 years ago
why??? not well i can speak a little, can't write or read.
shagenchik 2 years ago
And I badly English know the dictionary I use))))))))))))))))
elgun89 2 years ago
get a history book thats what you need and look into old maps.
shagenchik 2 years ago
You too go learn Russian and read through Russian documents as they moved you to caucasus! You too require it! ок???))
elgun89 2 years ago
LMAO xD I know Russian documents you moron, find me such proof, the only documents are bullshti azeri documents, haha your such a clown its unbelievable. Stop jumping from one of your worthless theories to another, its so pathetic. its too funny how bad you embarss yourself. hahaha wow.
shagenchik 2 years ago
ARA TURK, BALABAN@ tar koxi mort vor@, it's an Armenian instrument.
MrDjrob1 2 years ago
Just because Stalin gave your Nakhichevan and Karabagh during the early Soviet times doesn't make it yours.
shagenchik 2 years ago
Its funny how you jump from one subject saying BS how duduk is azeri. haha through you know well its Armenian. Stop stealing our culturalal aspects, you have not culture and you will remaing Mongols. Seriously why are you even here??? haha just to embarss yourself. Eldun didn't you already make yourself look like a clown??
shagenchik 2 years ago
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Yes everyone know that you are mixed with the Frenchmen kurds assyrians Persians turkis arabs the Caucasian people Russian Jews and so on! Here your Armenian nation! Your lobby proves to the world that at you as well as Jews were not the native land! A current people not having the native land have a strong lobby!
elgun89 2 years ago
and yes turkic=mongol. get a history check. elgun stop being such a prick that you are and check true history not azeri bullshit sites, its so pathetic what you azeris say, keep embarssing yourself azer.
shagenchik 2 years ago
Tell me why you make up 10 different stories on Armenian history?? you can't change history, the culture and instruments such as duduk have always been part of Armenia and will remain.
shagenchik 2 years ago
You do not know history!!!! Uselessly with you to communicate
elgun89 2 years ago
lmao i don't know history?? more than you do thats for sure, the problem is can you afford a mirror??? plese if you can take a look at it xD your such an azeri clown. Go read your azeri propoganda books maybe it will tell you that the first man on Mars was an Azeri too. xD lol
shagenchik 2 years ago
elgun please communication with your is like communication with a rock. Yet i belive its less pointless talking to a rock than you,. lol MONGOL!!
shagenchik 2 years ago
Their grandfathers have inspired them that type duduk is Armenian! But it not so!! To Armenians and to a head would not come such that there is on the ground such tool!-Armenians go study the history! Or you have forgotten that have moved you from the different countries on territory of Azerbaijan in 18 century?? Azeri-turkiс live on caucasus 2000 and you 300 years!
elgun89 2 years ago
people of the world nobody cares about Azerbaidjan, xD Djivan Gasparyan is the greatest duduk player in the world. ofcourse from Armenia. The word "balaban" is a fake azerified/turkified name for the Armenian duduk. Secondly Armenia dates back 3,000 years as opposed to azerbaidjan which didn't become a nation only until 1918.
shagenchik 2 years ago
Elgun tell me why Roman records don't indicate to any nation such as Azerbaidjan,?? its funny how your azers don't even know your own history. LMAO azeris were sniffing each others bottoms in Mongolia when Armenia was in the caucusus,. Under Tigran the Great the Armenian duduk was being played. The duduk was first introduced into the Ottomon empire from Armenia in the 16th century, When azerbaidjan didn't even have a place on the map. xD
shagenchik 2 years ago
Armenians in 4 century B.C. have moved from Balkan peninsula on territory of today's Turkey!
elgun89 2 years ago
elgun now your telling me a different story?? what is this??? elgun you don't even know your own history, how dare you change the history of Armenia??? Armenia has been a nation for over three thousand years. Armenia was called Urartu aka Arartia. The Assyrian, Hebrew name for Armenia then it was changed into Armenia by the Romans which Armenia was under the Armenian Orontid dynasty. Get a history check.
shagenchik 2 years ago
It to you was inspired by your historians but there was no such history at you!!! Mongols it NOT turkis remember! They have grasped caucasus and destroyed turkis both in Asia and on caucasus!
elgun89 2 years ago
your truly retarded, firstly there was no such thing as Turks in Caucusus, Get educated you lack the most common sense, and its not our historians but any historian or any map will indicate that the word "turk" did not exist. It came into Caucusus through Mongols. 100 percent Mongols, and especially azerbaidjan which didn't exist, Caucuses was formed by Armenia, Greece(byzantium), PErsia, and Iberia(Georgia).
shagenchik 2 years ago
elgun my grandfathers are dead, secondly its not our historians its your historians who make you confuesed because they have no back up to their saying and they only do it based on Anti-Armenian propoganda. Any historian will tell you there was no such thing as turks only until the first turkic tribes from Mongolia came in.
shagenchik 2 years ago
haha elgun is the first man in space Azeri too?? his name is probably mehmed gagarinoglu. xD hey azer clown you have and never had history other than the fact that you are from Mongolia. Keep youe jeolousy to yourself and get educated. THe whole world knows the records of the duduk which is a christian instrument and everything points to Armenia. Azerbaidjan didn't exist at all and still is a fake "country".
shagenchik 2 years ago
We not Mongols and not Turks we azeri-turkis! And you descendants of kurds and assyrians are not present such nation as Armenians! Words Armenia this Greek names!
elgun89 2 years ago
Azeris have caucasian in them, but they are still turkic tribes formed by Persian influence. your Mongols by blood, even your DNA will be closer to a mongol then anyone else here. Even Turks from Turkey are whiter because they mixed with some Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Serbians, etc
shagenchik 2 years ago
Go look up Turkic tribes and check where they originate do you know where????? YES MONGOLIA!!!