robinboyd
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My wife has this thing where she collects wind instruments or whistles from places she has been. She spent some time in Kazakhstan about a decade ago and came back with what looks like an ocarina but is in fact a "saz-syrnai," which is a traditional Kazakh instrument. Does anyone have any experience with them?
The only resource we have found is this youtube video:
By watching the video, we were able to work out a general principle behind fingering and worked out the following notes - Bb, C, D, Eb, E, F, and G. I think I can work out how to play an A as well, but we were tired and went to bed before we got there. Now I know that that's a Bb major scale, except for that damn natural E, which I can't work out the logic behind. Does Kazakh music use some weird scale or something?
The other thing is that the finger placement that results in a Bb on ours seems to play an A in the Youtube video, is that guy's instrument playing in A?
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
The only resource we have found is this youtube video:
By watching the video, we were able to work out a general principle behind fingering and worked out the following notes - Bb, C, D, Eb, E, F, and G. I think I can work out how to play an A as well, but we were tired and went to bed before we got there. Now I know that that's a Bb major scale, except for that damn natural E, which I can't work out the logic behind. Does Kazakh music use some weird scale or something?
The other thing is that the finger placement that results in a Bb on ours seems to play an A in the Youtube video, is that guy's instrument playing in A?
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
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