Karen Hakobyan's Bass Armenian Shvi

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Music

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• shvi
• armenia
• duduk
• armenian
• blul
• bloul
• long
• wind
• flute
• karen
• hakobyan

[MrPekingCat]

Might I ask if this instrument is chromatic or diatonic?

[timdb85]

@MrPekingCat You may not ask! jk ;) It is diatonic, in G. I prefer chromatic flutes like the blul or kaval, but this is great in its own way.

[MrPekingCat]

@timdb85 on Hakobyan's sight, he lists four specific flutes, the piccolo flute, the standard flute, the bass flute, and the long wind flute. The Blul as I remember is the name for the bass flute, and the chromatic flute instruments are collectively referred to as Sring instruments. Which one specifically is the Kaval then?

[timdb85]

@MrPekingCat oh the blul is the long wind flute. The kaval is a Turkish or Bulgarian chromatic flute similar to the blul. :)

[MrPekingCat]

@timdb85 so the Blul is the same as the Long Wind Flute, not the Bass Flute, or are those two instruments the same? Either case, do the other Sring instruments (i.e. the Standard Flute in G and the Small Flute in D) have names of their own?

[timdb85]

@MrPekingCat oh I see what you're referring to now on the site. All the sring flutes can be called bluls to my knowledge. I believe they could each have different names as well, though I don't know them. I didn't see that there was a sring flute that was actually labeled a "bass flute" on the site (armenianinstruments dot am), but there is a bass shvi, which is not of the sring family, the one I am playing in this video.

[MrPekingCat]

@timdb85 on his site, Hakobyan refers to the 'bass flute' as the 'blul' under the flutes page. Yet, I've noticed the Blul has 8 holes as does the 'Long wind flute,' all of the others have 7 holes.

There are four Sring instruments pictured under the flute section of his site, though audio samples are only given for three of them. There is apparently also an 'alto flute' in between the Standard Flute in G and the Piccolo Flute in D if you check the page.

[timdb85]

Tank you! There are some for more reasonable prices than you might expect, on ebay, etc.

[timdb85]

Thank you! :)

[HayastanAshxarh]

Nicely done!!!!! Very sweet sound.