Dozaleh

The instrument is called Dozaleh (دو زَله) in Kurdistan, from zal (زَل), the Kurdish word for the stem of the zal reed.

The instrument goes by a variety of names in Iran. It is known as Jannati (Persian, "pair": جفتی) in Hormozgan, Do Ney (Persian, "two reeds": دو نی) in Lorestan, Do Sazeh (Persian, "two structures": دو سازه) in South Khorasan Province, and Ghoshmeh (Persian: قوشمه) among Khorasan's Kurdish people.

Ghoshmeh may have come from the tradition of making the instruments from the bones of birds, although one linguist suggests other possibilities, including "pair."[3]

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  Ghoshmeh. (قشمه استخوانی "Bone ghoshmeh"). Instrument made from bird bones
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  Aluminum-bodied instrument (قوشمه از جنس آلمینیوم "Ghoshmeh made of aluminum")
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  Image showing location of eagle bones used to make the Ghoshmeh and the bones in the polishing stage.
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  Musician Ghanbar Rastgoo playing Hormozgan's version of the "Saz" (instrument, ساز) + "gifti" (paired, جفتی). (Saz gifti, paired instrument, ساز جفتی).
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  Musician from Russian Turkestan, about 1872, playing the koshnai (variation of the word ghoshmeh).

Dozaleh or (Donay in Kurdish) is a very old instrument that is one of the first Iranian wind instruments. In Kurdish areas, this instrument is made from a plant called Zaleh, which grows near rivers.

In modern times, the instrument's body has also been made from aluminum or copper tubes.[2]

This photo shows three different models of dozaleh, the model on the right is made by bone of some animals. The middle dozeleh is for Khorasan region and the photo on the left is for Kurdish regions.

The instrument has been seen as sufficiently important to Iranian culture and history to encourage interest in it, through placement on the Iran National Heritage List. It is placed in works of North Khorasan in the "field of intangible cultural heritage", item 1543: Techniques and skills of making Ghoshmeh local instrument.[4]

This instrument has 5 to 7 holes in each reed.[5] It is played by three middle fingers of both hands, which are placed on the holes of the instrument.[2] The thumbs take the instrument from behind.[2] The musician puts the instrument's reed "tongue" inside his mouth and blows into it.[2]

• Ghoshmeh in Persian
• Qoşme Kurdish

• Hamshahrionline (Persian: همشهری آنلاین), online version of the Hamshahri Iranian daily paper. Article from 20 February 2017: Familiarity with Dozle instrument (آشنایی با ساز دوزله)
• Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music. Elijah Wald. 2012. p. 227. ISBN 9781135863685.

• Interview with Ali Khan Yazdani (born in North Khorasanprovince) who makes the Ghoshmeh form of the instrument and plays it. He describes his choice of bone for the instrument. (Article is in Persian.)