Pungi fifty years ago. However, prior to this it derived from Indian folk music and was used for religious purposes for snake charming. The pungi is traditionally made from a dried bottle gourd. Often, the neck of the gourd is carved for aesthetic reasons. On the other end, two (sometimes one or three) reed or bamboo pipes are connected. These are known as the "jivala". One of the pipes has 5 - 9 holes and plays the melody; the other pipe is for drone. The jivala is fitted to the gourd with beeswax, which can be adjusted for pitch modification. The
Mizmar (instrument) it is influenced by the Turkish "zurna," a higher-pitched version of the "mizmar", and may also be known in those countries as a "zamr" (زمر) or "zamour", as well as "mizmar". In Algeria a similar instrument is called "ghaita" or "rhaita" (غيطة). Along with belly dancing, the mizmar may accompany the dabke, a folkloric line dance done in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq. Mizmar (instrument) In Arabic music, a mizmār (; plural مَزَامِير mazāmīr) is any single or double reed wind instrument. In Egypt, the term "mizmar" usually refers to the conical shawm that is called "zurna" in Turkey. "Mizmar"