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The Forked Shawm—An Ingenious Invention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Jeremy Montagu
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The forked shawm is a type of instrument which is in common use around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, from Morocco (Cherki 1981:38), across to Egypt (Collaer & Elsner 1983:48), in Turkey (Picken 1975:485ff), in parts of the Balkans, and certainly as far east as Azerbaijan (Vertkov et al. 1975:fig. 415), probably Georgia (ibid.: fig. 456), and perhaps Uzbekistan (ibid.: fig. 582). What is important is that this particular variety of shawm, with the simple and ingenious device of the fork, is the most important development in the history of the shawm in two and a half thousand years.

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Research Article
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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 29 , 1997 , pp. 74 - 79
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Copyright © 1997 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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