Shyuvr

The shyuvr or shuvyr (chiabour in French sources, Russian: Шувыр) 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.^[1] The pipe is almost always played with the tumyr, a Mari drum.^[2]

Shyuvr

Classification	Bagpiping
Related instruments
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 (Ukrainian: Волинка), (Russian: Волынка) (Ukraine, Russia) Swedish bagpipes (Sweden) Ney anban(Iran)

An 1892 French work noted that the Mari had developed three instruments: a cithare (zither or cittern), bagpipe, and drum.^[3] 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.^[4]