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Shapar

The shapar is a type of bagpipe of the Chuvash people of the Volga Region of Russia. The bag is usually made of a bladder; the pipe has a double-chanter bored into a single block of wood. The pipes were, until recently, played for weddings.

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Shapar
Classification

Aerophone

Bagpipe
Related instruments
Shuvyr (Mari ethnic group)
Painting of a Shapar by honored artist of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Efeykina Adel Akimovna (1933-1999). source ↗
A man playing the Shapar in traditional Chuvash clothing. source ↗

The shapar (shabr, Russian: Шапар, шабр, шыбыр, пузырь) is a type of bagpipe of the Chuvash people of the Volga Region of Russia. The bag is usually made of a bladder;1 the pipe has a double-chanter bored into a single block of wood. The pipes were, until recently, played for weddings.2

References

References

  1. Musical Instruments Museum (2000). Visitor's guide. Mardaga. p. 56. ISBN 978-2-87009-730-4.
  2. Malou Haine; Hubert Boone; Isabelle Deleuse; Géry Dumoulin; Wim Bosmans; Karel Moens; Anja Van Lerberghe; Ferdinand J De Hen; Pascale Vandervellen (18 September 2001). Musée des Instruments de Musique: Cornemuses européennes. Editions Mardaga. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-2-87009-786-1. Retrieved 27 April 2011.