The Tulum is a musical instrument, a form of bagpipe from Turkey. It is droneless with two parallel chanters, usually played by the Pontic Greeks (particularly Chaldians), Laz and Hamsheni people. It is a prominent instrument in the music of Pazar, and in the villages of the Tatos range (the watershed between the provinces of Rize and Erzurum) of Äspir. Tulum is the instrument of the transhumant population of the north-eastern provinces of Anatolia and, like the kemene its area, its imposes its style on the whole of the dance and entertaintment music of those for whom it is “our music”.
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