al Russian music as well as folk music. Another instrument is the Zhaleika. The zhaleika (pronounced "zhal-YAY-ka," crudely put) is the most commonly possessed and used Russian folk wind instrument. It's a "folk clarinet" or hornpipe. It has a single reed, which may be covered by a mouthpiece (or "wind cap"). There's a wooden barrel with finger holes and a flared bell. It can be made of various natural or man-made materials; cow horn bells are common, but all wood and even birch bark zhaleikas exist too. There are many types of Zhaleika's. The zhaleika has a diatonic tuning, comes in various keys (G, A, D, sometimes also C, E, F) and can come in soprano (i.e. "normal"), alto, and even piccolo forms. They can be tuned by adjusting the reed. The tuning of the instrument is very interesting, and is normally tuned to the Mixolydian mode (which means, in the key of G you get all naturals, no accidentals) and you only get one octave's worth of notes. (In some books on the topic they say you can also get the final non-diminished 7th tone with alternate fingering.) Yet another instrument is the Volynka. The volynka (pronounced "val-In-ka"; or "val-Yn-ka" if you can manage...) or Belarusian "duda" is a basic Slavic bagpipe. Its chanter is called a zhaleika (and is functionally equivalent). It also has 1-2 drones; all those and the mouthpiece are attached to a bag. You may not have encountered any Russian or East Slavic pipers (who'd be called a "volynshchik" (Russian) or "dudar" (Belarusian)). That's because the instrument has been neglected for at least a century and is only now being revived. However, the sound of the volynka has been preserved both in the zhaleika (which has allowed the playing technique to be preserved as well) and to some extent by the droning sound of the hurdy-gurdy (known in Russia as the "lira"). The Brelka, (pronounced "brIOl-ka") is a double-reeded zhaleika; a sort of diatonic "folk oboe." Most have a (wooden)...
