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{{Short description|Traditional Middle Eastern single-reed musical instrument}}
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| name                  = Mijwiz
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| image                 = Mijwiz.jpg
| image_capt            = ''Mijwiz'' from Egypt
| background            = woodwind
| classification        = single-reed aerophone
| hornbostel_sachs      = 422.211.2 
| hornbostel_sachs_desc = single reed instrument with cylindrical bore and fingerholes
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| related               = [[arghul]], [[bülban]],  [[clarinet]], [[diplica]], [[dili tuiduk]], [[dozaleh]], [[Arghul#.C3.87ifte|cifte]],  [[launeddas]], [[pilili]], [[sipsi]], zammara, [[zummara]]
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The '''''mijwiz''''' ({{langx|ar|{{script|Arab|[[wikt:مجوز|مجوز]]}}}}, [[DIN 31635|DIN]]: ''miǧwiz'') is a traditional Middle East [[Instrument (music)|musical instrument]] popular in [[Palestine]], [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]] and [[Jordan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.acousticslab.org/world/Ensembles/NearEast/Mijwiz.htm|title=Mijwiz|website=Acousticslab.org|access-date=21 April 2021}}</ref><ref> {{Cite web|url=https://omeka1.grinnell.edu/MusicalInstruments/items/show/169 | work = grinnell.edu | title = Mijwiz| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150812161359/https://omeka1.grinnell.edu/MusicalInstruments/items/show/169 | archive-date = August 12, 2015 }}</ref> Its name in [[Arabic]] means "dual", because of its consisting of two, short, bamboo pipes with reed tips  put together, making the mijwiz a double-pipe, [[Single-reed instrument|single-reed]] [[woodwind instrument]].<ref name=GroveMijwiz>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last= Sadie |editor-first=Stanley |last=Poché|first= Christian |entry= Mijwiz|encyclopedia= The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments |year=1984 |volume= 2 |page= 661|quote= double clarinet...two parallel pipes of same length...mijwiz is the vernacular term for pair...reedpipe...single reed}}</ref>

==Background==
The mijwiz consists of two pipes of equal length; each pipe has around five or six small holes for fingering.  It requires a special playing technique known as "[[circular breathing]]," which is tricky but produces a continuous tone, without pausing to take a breath.  The mijwiz is played in the Levant as an accompaniment to either [[Belly dance|belly dancing]] or [[dabke]], the folkloric [[line dance]] of the Levant.  The mijwiz is most popular today in the Levant (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan).  Many popular folk songs either include the mijwiz on recordings, or include the instrument's name in the song's lyrics.  One example is the famous [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[dabke]] song "Jeeb el Mijwiz ya Abboud" ({{langx|ar|{{script|Arab| جيب المجوز يا عبّود}}}}) by the singer [[Sabah (singer)|Sabah]].

The mijwiz is also related to the [[arghul]] (or yarghoul), which consists of one short pipe with five to six holes and a longer pipe joined to it just like the mijwiz and produces a very similar sound to it.

The mijwiz like the argoul is related to ancestor of some types of [[bagpipe]]s. However, in the case of the mijwiz, the cheeks of the player with their circular breathing act like the bag that contains the air in a bagpipe.

==See also==
*[[Mizwad]]
*[[Arghul]]
*[[Double flute]]
*[[Launeddas]]
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