Guan (instrument)
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The guan is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. The northern Chinese version is called guanzi 管子 or bili and the Cantonese version is called houguan. It is classified as a bamboo instrument in the
Northern Chinese hardwood guanzi
Detail of 12th century Song dynasty painting depicting three guan (double-reed pipe) players and two dizi (transverse flute) players, accompanied by a paiban (wooden clapper), performing in the home of Han Xizai, a minister to the Song dynasty emperor Li Houzhu
A small Cantonese houguan in the key of C
Mey (instrument)
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The mey is a double-reed aerophone used in Turkish folk music. The mey, duduk, and balaban are almost identical, except for historical and geographical differences.
Guan (instrument)
…autonomous region. The only other guanzi hardwood versions also exist in northwest China that share a similarity to the Armenian duduk and Turkish mey. In the 20th century, modern versions of the guan were developed in China. These modernized guan, which may be as long as a Western clarinet, have more…
This image is of a duduk, an instrument nearly identical to the mey.