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Some instruments used in elite Sjowaázh music are the lute (''ya'óog''), various spike fiddles such as the erhu (''shjhedgaáñd''), the lyre (''biliiwíd''), various end-blown flutes (''joweét'''), a reed instrument (<i>'awa'oós</i>), a large drum (''khoól'') and the woodblock (''gho'éeñ''). String instruments usually are unfretted but marked at perfect fourths. | Some instruments used in elite Sjowaázh music are the lute (''ya'óog''), various spike fiddles such as the erhu (''shjhedgaáñd''), the lyre (''biliiwíd''), various end-blown flutes (''joweét'''), a reed instrument (<i>'awa'oós</i>), a large drum (''khoól'') and the woodblock (''gho'éeñ''). String instruments usually are unfretted but marked at perfect fourths. | ||
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In traditional Sjowaázh elite society, one was expected to able to play music and improvise. Courts would routinely hold improvisation competitions. | In traditional Sjowaázh elite society, one was expected to able to play music and to improvise music and poetry. Courts would routinely hold improvisation competitions. | ||
The Sjowaázh adapted the tetrachordal and heptatonic musical traditions of Hetom and Naquiz and made them their own. | |||
===Tuning=== | ===Tuning=== |
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