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In the twentieth century, the Armenian duduk began to be standardized diatonic in scale and single- octave in range. The particular tuning depends heavily on the region in which it is played. Today, the duduk is exclusively made of wood with a large double reed, with the body made from aged apricot wood. The earliest instruments similar to the duduk's present form are made of bone or entirely of cane. The duduk is a double reed instrument with ancient origins, having existed since at least the fifth century, while there are Armenian scholars who believe it existed more than 1,500 years before that. Similar instruments used in other parts of Western Asia are the mey and balaban. This instrument is not to be confused with the northwestern Bulgarian folk instrument of the same name (see below, Balkan duduk). In Armenia, the instrument is also known as tsiranapogh ( ծիրանափող). Īccording to linguist Hrachya Acharyan the name "duduk" comes from the Ottoman Turkish word "دودوك‎." However, the word has a long history within Turkish as well, being included by Mahmud Kashgari in his Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk ( Compendium of the languages of the Turks) circa 1073 A.D.

Энциклопедия) and American book Musical Instruments, A Comprehensive Dictionary give an ultimate origin of the name as Persian, the word tutak. There have been two published lines of thinking on the origins of the word.īoth the Russian book Musical Instruments Encyclopedia (Музыкальные инструменты. Duduk music has been used in a number of films, most notably in The Russia House and Gladiator. UNESCO proclaimed the Armenian duduk and its music as a Masterpiece of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2005 and inscribed it in 2008.

Unlike other double reed instruments like the oboe or shawm, the duduk has a very large reed proportional to its size. The unflattened reed and cylindrical body produce a sound closer to the English horn than the oboe or bassoon. It is commonly played in pairs: while the first player plays the melody, the second plays a steady drone called dum, and the sound of the two instruments together creates a richer, more haunting sound. Duduk, Balaban, and Mey are almost identical, except for historical and geographical differences. Variations of the Armenian duduk appear throughout the Caucasus and the Middle East, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The duduk ( / d uː ˈ d uː k/ doo- DOOK Armenian: դուդուկ IPA: ) or tsiranapogh ( Armenian: ծիրանափող, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia.