Buhay
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For another meaning, see Buhay Hayaan Yumabong
The buhay (also known as a bugai, buhai, berebenytsia, bika, buga, bochka). (Buhay is the Ukrainian and Romanian word for "ox
", which in its turn is derived from the Turkish boğa, and its use as name of the instrument refers to the sound produced.)
Hornbostel-Sachs
classification number 232.11-92
The buhay is a percussive that was used in Western Ukraine
and is classified as a friction drum
. It consists of a conical barrel (sometimes a wooden bucket). At one end a sheep membrane is stretched with a hole in this skin's center. Through this hole a tuft of horse hair with a knot at one end is passed. Usually two performers are needed to operate the instrument, one to hold the instrument, the other to pull the horsehair with moistened fingers. In recent times versions of the buhay have been made which are held in position by the players feet allowing one player to play the instrument. These instruments can be played successfully by one player without assistance. Five to six different sounds can be obtained from the instrument, depending on the skill of the player.
The buhay plays an important part in New Years and Christmas rituals.
It is used in works by the Ukrainian folk instruments orchestra.
The buhai and local variants is common to Ukraine, Romania
, Moldova
, Hungary
and Lithuania
.
Buhay Hayaan Yumabong
Buhay Hayaan Yumabong is a party-list in the Philippines founded by El Shaddai Leader Mike Velarde.In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives the party-list got 705,730 votes and two seats . In the 14 May 2007 election, the party won 3 seats in the nationwide party-list vote...
The buhay (also known as a bugai, buhai, berebenytsia, bika, buga, bochka). (Buhay is the Ukrainian and Romanian word for "ox
Ox
An ox , also known as a bullock in Australia, New Zealand and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration makes the animals more tractable...
", which in its turn is derived from the Turkish boğa, and its use as name of the instrument refers to the sound produced.)
Hornbostel-Sachs
Hornbostel-Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961...
classification number 232.11-92
The buhay is a percussive that was used in Western Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
and is classified as a friction drum
Friction drum
Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 232.11-92A friction drum is a musical instrument found in various forms in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America...
. It consists of a conical barrel (sometimes a wooden bucket). At one end a sheep membrane is stretched with a hole in this skin's center. Through this hole a tuft of horse hair with a knot at one end is passed. Usually two performers are needed to operate the instrument, one to hold the instrument, the other to pull the horsehair with moistened fingers. In recent times versions of the buhay have been made which are held in position by the players feet allowing one player to play the instrument. These instruments can be played successfully by one player without assistance. Five to six different sounds can be obtained from the instrument, depending on the skill of the player.
The buhay plays an important part in New Years and Christmas rituals.
It is used in works by the Ukrainian folk instruments orchestra.
The buhai and local variants is common to Ukraine, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
and Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
.