Hichiriki

The hichiriki (Japanese:筚 篥), is a Japanese wind instrument with a double reed, which is mainly used for the traditional Gagaku music. There she is shō next to the mouth organ and the flute Ryūteki is the overriding melody instrument It is sometimes referred to as " double-reed flute ", although it is not a flute.

Due to the double-blade design, the cylindrical short oboe is very difficult to play. The tones are similar to the oboe or clarinet and are mainly influenced by the approach of the instrument. The hichiriki also one of the "sacred" instruments and is often used in Shinto Weddings in Japan. Today it is used in Japan for almost all forms of traditional music.

The hichiriki has evolved from the Chinese guan or bili. It is one of the Asian short oboes and is related to the piri in Korea, the duduk in Armenia, Azerbaijan and the balaban in the mey in Turkey. All these instruments differ in their softer sound and missing bell of the oboe in Asia widespread type of surnai and the Chinese suona. The name is derived by hichiriki phonetic shift from the ancient Chinese oboe pi -li, which is first seen 551 AD on a relief.