Srink
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Srink (Sring) is a relatively small bamboo flute with the pitch of a piccolo; it is made of wood or cane, with seven or eight finger holes, producing a diatonic scale. The Srink is the instrument of shepards who play on it various signals and tunes connected with their work, and also lyrical love songs called chaban bayaty, as well as progammatic pieces. The Sring is also used in combination with def and the dohl to provide music for dancing. Armenian musicologists (for example, Komitas) believed the Srink to be the most characteristic of national Armenian instruments. The Srink originates from Eastern Amernia (Caucausus Region).