Editing Mijwiz (section)

==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.