Rus: Folk Musik Instruments - Part 1
This instrument is most common in Ukraine. It actually a version of a recorder. The fingering system is basically chromatic in nature unlike the svirel' which is diatonic. This instrument comes in 5 different sizes and tonal ranges. It is a featured traditional instrument with the Ukrainian National Folk Orchestra in Kiev.
Dvadyensivka
The dvadyensivka is simply a form of double-sopil'ka. One must use both hands to finger this instrument. One hand on each "barrel is the only way one can play this instrument.
Kukuk
Kukuk are whisles that are usually made from clay in the shape of animals. Or in a free form oval shape. They are a Rus instrument that is kin of an ocarina.
Alternate & Miscellaneous Wind-Instruments
Some obscure Russian/East Slavic folk wind instruments include the svistul'ka, a form of ocarina, posvistel', surna or shawm, as well as various improvisational of music-makers composed of leaves, straw or now in modern times, waxed paper or plastic wrap used colectively as form of kazoo.
Sources:
Practical Course of playing Russian Folk Wind and Percussion Instruments Authors O. Budankov, M. Vakhutinsky, and V. Petrov, A. Moscow: Muzyka, 1991
Iskusstvo Vladimirskikh Rozhechnikov (Art of the Vladimir Horn Players) Author B. Smirnov, Moscow: Muzyka, 1965
Russkie Narodnye Muzykal'Nye Instrumenty (Russian Folk Musical Instruments) Author K. Vertkov, Library: Muzyka, 1975
Russkie Narodnye Naigryshi (Russian Folk Tunes) Author V. Petrov, Moscow: Muzyka, 1985
Copyright by Donald R. Houston, PhD
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