No. EA-TUVA-KHIRILEE-001
Tuvan khirilee performance bullroarer
Russia · Tuva · South Siberia
Play / practical
khirilee
khirilee: Tuvan instrument name in Pan Records liner notes; defined there as a whirling wooden chip on strings, i.e. a bullroarer-type rhombe.
Sergey Ondar brings the khirilee into the Tuva Ensemble’s modern sound world: a small wooden blade whirled on strings, its circling drone set among throat singing and the ensemble’s bowed and plucked instruments.
Khirilee: whirling chip of wood on strings; (a variant of the 'bull's roarer' from the western world).
Pan Records Tuvan liner-note glossary, p. 28
Particulars
- Object
- Khirilee, a small wooden blade whirled on strings.
- Function
- Modern Tuvan performance instrument played by Sergey Ondar with the Tuva Ensemble.
Source
Pan Records, liner notes to four Tuvan CDs, instrument glossary, p. 28; PAN 2013, Echoes from the Spirit World