The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources, russian: Шувыр) is a type of

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, ...

of the

Mari people The Mari ( chm, мари; russian: марийцы, mariytsy) are a Finnic people, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. Almost half of Maris today live in the Mari El republic, with significant populations in ...

, a Volga-Finnic people living in the Mari El Republic of central-western Russia. It is described as small bagpipe, consisting of a bag, a bone blowpipe, and two tubes of tin joined by a wooden sheath. The pipe is almost always played with the '' tumyr'', a Mari drum. An 1892 French work noted that the Mari had developed three instruments: a ''cithare'' (zither or cittern), bagpipe, and drum. A later English work makes a similar statement, saying that the Mari have two instruments unique to their culture: the ''

kusle Kusle ( Meadow Mari: ''кӱсле'', Northwestern Mari: ''кӹсле'' or ''кӹслӓ'') or karsh (Meadow and Northwestern Mari: ''кӓрш'') is a Mari plucked string instrument (chordophone). It has 12-20 strings and is shaped like a semi- ...

'' mult-stringed zither, and the shyuvr bagpipe.

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{{Reflist Volga Finns Mari musical instruments Bagpipes