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{{Short description|Traditional Middle Eastern single-reed musical instrument}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2021}} {{use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox instrument | name = Mijwiz | names = | 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 | inventors = | developed = | range = | related = [[arghul]], [[bülban]], [[clarinet]], [[diplica]], [[dili tuiduk]], [[dozaleh]], [[Arghul#.C3.87ifte|cifte]], [[launeddas]], [[pilili]], [[sipsi]], zammara, [[zummara]] | musicians = | builders = | articles = }} 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>
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