The kuvytsi ( uk, Кувиці), kugikly, kuvikly (russian: Кугиклы, Кувиклы) are the Ukrainian and Russian variant of
pan pipes
A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have bee ...
. Pan pipes have been found in archeological excavations in
Ukraine
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that date back some 5,000 years. The instrument consists of several pipes each of which, when blown endwise, produces one sound. Various versions of the kuvytsi exist in Ukraine, such as the one-sided kuvytsi, which consist of a system of pipes from great to small in one lode or two-sided kuvytsi, which have their greatest pipe in the center.
These instruments were used by ensembles in
Chernihiv
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Province and also widely in
Western Ukraine
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. These instruments allow chromatic notes to be readily obtained, a semitone lower than the primary sound of the pipe. This is done by bending the angle of the pipes with relation to the player's lips. The air stream is thus broken on the far end of the pipe, rather than the end closest the lips.
See also
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Ukrainian folk music
Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.
In the 20th century numerous ethnographic and folkloric musical ensembles were ...
*
Russian traditional music
Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people.
Ethnic styles in the modern era
The performance and promulgation of ethnic music in Russia has a long tradition. Initially it was intertwined with ...
Sources
Kugikly— article from the
Great Russian Encyclopedia.
*Humeniuk, A., ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'', Kyiv:
Naukova dumka
Naukova Dumka ( uk, Наукова Думка — literally "scientific thought") is a publishing house in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It was established by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1922, largely owing to the efforts of Ahatanhel Krymsky ...
, 1967
*Mizynec, V., ''Ukrainian Folk Instruments'', Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984
*Cherkaskyi, L., ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'' // Tekhnika, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003. 262 pages.
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