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The shapar (shabr, Russian: Шапар, шабр, шыбыр, пузырь) is a type of bagpipe of the Chuvash people of the Volga Region of Russia. The bag is usually made of a bladder;[1] the pipe has a double-chanter bored into a single block of wood. The pipes were, until recently, played for weddings.[2]

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Painting of a Shapar by honored artist of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Efeykina Adel Akimovna (1933-1999).
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A man playing the Shapar in traditional Chuvash clothing.
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