zurlan.

1940 C. Sachs Hist. Musical Instrum. (1942) xiii. 249 When the drums join in, the two larger oboes accompany the sibs in the lower octave. This must be an old custom, for the same is true for the Turkish oboes surle played by Croatian gypsies.

1953 Y. Arbatsky Beating Tupan in Central Balkans 4 We may assume that the Persian word zurnâ is the root from which zurna, zurne, zurla and surla were derived.

1957 A. C. Baines Woodwind Instruments & their Hist. ix. 229 We have only the notion, based on general historical grounds, that the parent instrument of the staple-bearing kind is the Middle Eastern shawm surna, a variety of which, frequently heard at our folk~dance festival, is the Macedonian zurla.

1962 Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. 41 43 The Gypsies in Balkan countries used, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the following musical instruments: tambourine, cymbalum, drum and zurla (a wind-instrument of Oriental origin).

1975 L. Picken Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey iv. 499 The facts suggest that the modern Turkish shawm represents a development independent of the shawms of Western Europe. The two types co-exist today in Yugoslavia, where the zurla has a ‘head’ comparable with that of Anatolian and Thracian zurna.

1975 L. Picken Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey iv. 500 To group (b) belong the shawms-with-finger-holes of Macedonia, both those of Yugoslavia—zurla..and those of Greece—zourná.