Duduk

Two boys in an Armenian village playing the duduk, a short pipe of apricot wood blown through a broad, flattened double reed cut from a plant that grows along the Arax River. A pair suits it: duduk music usually needs two players, one holding a steady drone with circular breathing while the other carries the melody. That hushed, mournful tone earned the duduk and its music a place on UNESCO's intangible heritage list, proclaimed in 2005 and inscribed in 2008.