Shehnai
The shehnai (also spelled shenai) is a musical instrument from South Asia. It is made of wood, with a double reed at one end and a metal or wooden bell-shaped part at the other end. It was one of the nine instruments used in the royal court.
Zurna
The zurna is a double reed wind instrument played in Central Asia, West Asia, the Caucasus, Southeast Europe, and parts of North Africa. It is also used in Sri Lanka. The zurna is often played with a davul (bass drum) in Armenian, Anatolian, and Assyrian folk music.
Duduk
The Armenian duduk (pronounced “doo-DOOK”) is also called tsiranapogh, which means “apricot-made wind instrument” in Armenian. It is a double reed woodwind instrument made from apricot wood and comes from Armenia. Similar versions of the duduk are found in the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
Binioù
The binioù is a type of bagpipe. The word binioù means “bagpipe” in the Breton language. In Brittany, there are two types of binioù: the traditional binioù kozh, also called biniou-bihan (kozh means “old” in Breton; bihan means “small”), and the binioù bras, also called binioù braz (bras means “big”).
Cornamuse
The cornamuse is a double reed instrument from the Renaissance period. It is similar to the crumhorn because both have a windcap over the reed and a cylindrical shape. The only information about the cornamuse comes from a description and some comments by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma musicum II, published in 1619.
Zampogna
Zampogna is a general name for a type of Italian musical instrument called double-chantered bagpipes. These instruments are found in areas of Latium, a region in Italy. The tradition of playing zampogna is now most closely connected to Christmas celebrations.
Bagpipes
The bagpipe is a woodwind instrument that uses covered reeds connected to a bag that holds air. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipe is very famous, but people have played bagpipes for many centuries in many parts of Europe, North Africa, West Asia, near the Persian Gulf, and in northern areas of South Asia. The word “bagpipes” is often used, but musicians typically call them “the pipes,” “a set of pipes,” or “a stand of pipes.” Bagpipes are part of the aerophone group because air must be blown into the instrument to create sound.
Duda
• Duda, a Hungarian bagpipe instrument • Dūda, a Latvian bowed string instrument • Dūdas, a Latvian bagpipe instrument • La duda, a Mexican telenovella • La duda (1967 TV series) • The Doubt (Spanish: La duda), a 1972 Spanish drama film
Gaita
• Gaita (bagpipe), a type of bagpipe found in northern Spain and Portugal • Gaita gastoreña, a hornpipe musical instrument from El Gastor, Andalusia • Gaita navarra, a flute from the Navarre region of Spain • Gaita Zuliana, a musical style from Venezuela • Kuisi, or Colombian gaita, fipple flutes from Colombia and parts of Panama
Northumbrian smallpipes
The Northumbrian smallpipes (also called the Northumbrian pipes) are bagpipes that use a bellows to blow air. They are from Northeastern England and have been an important part of the local music culture for more than 250 years. The family of the Duke of Northumberland has had an official piper for over 250 years.