The Bullroarer Atlas

EA-TUVA-KHIRILEE-001 - lexical attestation

Tuvan Ensemble / modern Tuvan performance context

Russia - Tuva - Asia - Siberia

Play / practical

Representative—not this record’s object: an East Greenland bullroarer from Ammassalik.
Representative—not this record’s object: an East Greenland bullroarer from Ammassalik. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (1935.52.7) Image source

khirilee English / French metadata; Tuvan term

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. The name appears in the group’s own liner-note glossary.

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, via Academia.edu text extraction
Object
Khirilee, a small wooden blade whirled on strings; documented in the Tuva Ensemble’s instrument glossary and performer credits.
Function
Modern Tuvan performance instrument played by Sergey Ondar with the Tuva Ensemble.
Map confidence
low_medium - Kyzyl/Tuva regional anchor for Tuva Ensemble, founded in Kyzyl; checked sources do not give a more precise khirilee field locality.
Source location
Pan liner-notes glossary, p. 28 / browser extraction lines 109-112; Discogs PAN 2013 release performer credits; Rythmes Croises review paragraph on Echoes from the Spirit World; FOTuva FAQ part 2 lines 244-248.

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