Shyuvr
Mari bagpipe
title: "Shyuvr" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["volga-finns", "mari-musical-instruments", "bagpipes"] description: "Mari bagpipe" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyuvr" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mari bagpipe ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Shyuvr |
| image | Shuvyr.jpg |
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|name=Shyuvr |names= |image=Shuvyr.jpg |classification=
- Bagpiping |range= |related=
- Bock (Czech)
- Cimpoi (Romanian)
- Duda (Hungarian/Polish)
- Koza (Polish)
- Diple (Dalmatian Coast)
- Mih (Istrian)
- Tulum (Turkish and Pontic)
- Tsambouna (Dodecanese and Cyclades)
- Askomandoura (Crete)
- Gajdy (Polish/Czech/Slovak)
- Gaita (Galician)([Asturian])
- Surle (Serbian/Croatian)
- Mezoued/Zukra (Northern Africa)
- Guda, tulum (Laz people)
- Dankiyo, zimpona (Pontic)
- Parkapzuk (Armenia)
- Gudastviri (Georgia (country))
- Tsimboni (Georgia (country) )(Adjara)
- Sahbr, Shapar (Chuvashia)
- Tulug (Azerbaijan)
- Volynka (), () (Ukraine, Russia)
- Swedish bagpipes (Sweden)
- Ney anban(Iran)
The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources, ) is a type of bagpipe of the Mari people, 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 mult-stringed zither, and the shyuvr bagpipe.
References
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- Société de Géographie de Rochefort. (1892). "Bulletin".
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