Текст песни Jivan Gasparyan - Duduk

Famous Armenian musician and composer . Professor of Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas. The world-renowned expert on the Armenian national music, master of the duduk .
And what is the duduk ? Merely unpretentious & quot; fife & quot; game with nine holes and a double reed , made from the root of the apricot tree . And at the same time it is one of the oldest wind instrument known to man , which appeared in a thousand years before Christ. In sound - something between a flute and Gabo . Tone is soft, warm, slightly nasal , and incredibly soulful - I mean poignant . And not just a taker , and gut-wrenching it inside out . & quot; This is a tool that ninety-nine times crying and laughing only once & quot ;, - speaks Jivan . Without it did not do in the old days , and now can not do , no folk song , folk dance none .
At a reception in Fresno , California , where among those present was, and William Saroyan - famous American writer of Armenian descent to Jivan came an old man and a 80 -minute , saying that in 1915, Turkey has lost his entire family , asked him to repeat Jivan old melody that he had just played . Jivan granted his request . Then again and again . The old man listened to the deep peace with his eyes closed ... After a while it became clear that he died peacefully . His wife ran to almost any musician with his fists : & quot; You better not come here at all with your duduk ! & Quot; And then William Saroyan said it : & quot; Ma'am, you're wrong . It's a beautiful death. Personally, I would like that to die - to the sound of the duduk . It's was not a game , and Prayer ! & Quot;