Tsambouna

the tsambouna or tsampouna is a Cornemuse met in the islands Greek. It is different from the continental Gaida .

Stringed-instrument trade

It is manufactured by the musician himself, starting from a sheep or goatskin, is turned over. It with the characteristic to have only one consistent pipe in a piece of wood of olive-tree or reed dug in order to insert there two pipes of reed with a hip:

  • the melody tuyan is 25 cm length, 5 holes, and ends in a house in horn
  • the Bourdon of which the height is not adjustable.
Is added to it to bouffoir it, with the borer either right-hand side or conical, out of wood or reed, 12 cm length.

Only some pyrogravures are used as decorations.

Play

One plays about it upright. The scale is diatonic, and one plays the folk music there, in particular the dances. She is played in solo or accompanied by percussions the such Daouli.

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