Duduk (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The duduk is a traditional woodwind instrument popular in the Caucasus, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The English word is often used generically for a family of ethnic instruments including the doudouk or duduk (also tsiranapogh in Armenian, the duduk or mey in Turkey, the duduki in Georgia, the balaban (or duduk) in Azerbaijan, the narmeh-ney in Iran, the duduka or dudka in Russia and Ukraine. The word itself is ultimately derived from Turkish "duduk," likely of onomatopoeic origin. The word dudka in Slavic languages is a diminutive of duda and is of native Slavic origin.