Url
	https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/1511
Resource class
	wmi:MusicalInstrument
Title
	mijwiz 
Subject
	422.221.2
Contributor
	Roger Vetter
Type
	Turkish
	Arab
Format
	12.6 in. length (with reeds)
10.5 in. length (without reeds)
8.5 in. length (fingerhole section only)

Identifier
	2377
Source
	West Asia
	North Africa
Language
	EN
Coverage
	Turkey
	Iraq
	Iraq
	Egypt
	Tunisia
	Morocco
Alternative Title
	zummāra
	zamr
Medium
	reed - cane
	cord - cotton
Requires
	Hassan, Scheherazade Qassim. 2002. "Musical Instruments in the Arab World." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music v. 6. The Middle East. ed. Virginia Danielson, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds. New York: Routledge, pp. 401-423.
Marcus, Scott L. 2007. Music in Egypt: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Marcuse, Sibyl. 1975. A Survey of Musical Instruments. New York: Harper and Row.
Morris, R. Conway. 1984. “‘Çifte [çifte].” NGDMI v.1: p. 369.
Picken, Laurence. 1975. Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey. London: Oxford University Press.
Poché, Christian. 1984. “‘Mijwiz [midjwiz, miğwiz, mizwidj; mizwij]” NGDMI v.2: p. 661.
________. 1984. “Mizmār.” NGDMI v.2: 668-669.
Sachs, Curt. 1940. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W.W. Norton. 
Touma, Habib Hassan. 1996. The Music of the Arabs. trans. Laurie Schwartz. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press.

Is Part Of
	Grinnell College Music Instrument Collection
Spatial Coverage
	Asia
	Africa
Provenance
	Grinnell College Music Department
Air cavity design for aerophones
	tubular - cylindrical with open distal end
Source and direction of airstream
	player exhalation through mouth into air cavity; unidirectional
Energy transducer that activates sound for aerophones
	exposed idioglot percussion (single) reed
Means of modifying shape and dimensions of standing wave in air cavity for aerophones
	opening fingerholes to reduce space or shorten length of standing wave in air cavity
Overblowing utilization in aerophones
	not used
Pitch production in aerophones
	multiple pitches - changing length/shape of standing waves within two cavities with fingerholes
Category of Instrument
	aerophone

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