Professional Armenian DUDUK instrument from apricot wood, 2 reeds (1 prof and 1 standard), Eco-Leather case, Flute Oboe Balaban Woodwind

What a beautiful instrument! The sorrowful sound is truly transportive. The instrument in beautifully crafted, and its not as difficult to produce sound as its made out to be. With a bit of practice, i got ir sounding like it should in a few days. So happy i bought this! Shipping to Vietnam took a bit long, but it was worth the wait.

Looks good, and sounds good too. I'm happy with my purchase. Also the packaging was exceptional

Looking forward to becoming proficient on the DUDUK. I, too, ordered this one as a result of falling in love with the sound after hearing Jenny Wren by Paul McCartney. First, I ordered a lesser model - sent it back because the quality that I had hoped for was lacking. I’m so happy that I ordered this one to replace it - it is fantastic! Would recommend it to anyone interested in learning to play this beautiful instrument!

Very well made Duduk and even got an extra reed other than the two for 3 total reeds they were so kind to give me - the sound of this instrument is incredible !

The instrument itself seems fine. I can only make sound with 1 of the 3 reeds that came with it. It has an extremely strong burned smell as well as a very strong varnish smell. When holding it, it sometimes feels sticky.

I am a professional musician and music teacher. I don’t know much about the duduk. I fell in love with the sound listening to Paul McCartney’s “Jenny Wren”. I had no idea what I was hearing. Hauntingly beautiful and comfortingly melancholic. I did some online research, listened to a few samples of traditional Armenian duduk music, and immediately ordered one. It took a few weeks to arrive from Armenia. It was so fun to play. Hard! One of the reeds was open pretty wide, so it took massive embouchure strength to produce a tone. The second reed I tried had a narrower opening, so it was easier, but the tone was smaller. That’s the trade off with all instruments, I find - mouthpieces are either easy to play or they sound amazing. So, I’m fine with that being the case for duduk, too. The one thing I find frustrating is the layout of the holes.. the spacing has to be the way it is for tuning, I get that. But, there is no ergonomic adjustment whatsoever. They’re drilled in a perfectly straight line, which makes it HARD to get your pinky to cover its hole. It could very well be this is part of the tradition for duduk construction, I don’t know. All I know is, when I pick it up to play, the only reason I set it down again as quickly as I do is because I can’t figure out how to contort my hands to get them to reach those holes, and I have fairly large hands.. All in all, I’m very happy with my purchase.

I bought this item thinking it would be really good quality as it’s just barely under the price of a 200 professional duduk. But I was quite disappointed to find that it could barely make a sound, is a bit of tune, and the reeds are quite sub par in comparison to some I have bought elsewhere. The only thing that I really like about this buy is the case, splendid work but it’s a shame that it’s contents weren’t crafted as well as it was.

Purchased item, good for beginners and learning, already have double reed instruments, wanted this one with a more professional arrangement. Did not get what expected, but not a terrible product.