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| Traditional bagpipe (Gayda/Tulum) making and performing | |
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| Country | Turkey and North Macedonia |
| Reference | 02114 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2024 (19th session) |
| List | Representative |
Thetulum (Laz:გუდა,romanized: guda) is amusical instrument, a form ofbagpipe from the Black Sea region ofTurkey. It is droneless with two parallel chanters, and is usually played by theLaz, Black sea Turks,Hemshin peoples and byPontic Greeks, particularly Chaldians. It is a prominent instrument in the music ofPazar,Hemşin,Çamlıhemşin,Ardeşen,Fındıklı,Arhavi,Hopa, some other districts ofArtvin and in the villages of the Tatos range (the watershed between the provinces ofRize andTrabzon) ofİspir. It is the characteristic instrument of thetranshumant population of the northeastern provinces ofAnatolia and, like thekemençe in its area, thetulum imposes its style on all the dance and entertainment music of those for whom it is "our music".[1]
Some of the names of bagpipes from the Near East include:
The nametulum comes from theTurkish wordtulum, meaning "a skin container", which itself originates from theProto-Turkic wordtōl- ("to be full").[3][4]
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