zurla

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A form of zurna — A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounzurla (plural zurlas)

plural zurlas

  1. alternativeentertainmentAlternative form of zurna.

    It cannot be doubted that for hundreds of years zurla and tapan ensembles have played professionally for many ethnic groups in southern Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, the Macedonian province of Greece, the Pirin region of Bulgaria (southwest), and some parts of Balkan Thrace.

    2012, Carol Silverman, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
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