HISTORY OF SİPSİ

Sipsi - Burdur

The Teke region of Dirmil Town, Burdur Gölhisar, is famous for its dances and folk songs. Goat dances and folk songs are widely featured in weddings and family gatherings in the region. Sipsi, which is a very important instrument in the local musical folklore and which the nomads of the Teke region have loved for years and even accepted as a way of life, is also used as a word in various meanings. 

The dance tunes played with sipsi, also called dilli düdük, in the Dirmil region and Çavdır are called sipsi or sipsi hava in Burdur, Tefenni and Çavdır regions. Reed; It consists of two parts: the body, where the fret holes are located, or as it is called in the region, "the belly", and the mouthpiece, which allows the sound to be produced, called "cuk cuk" in the local expression.
The body part of the sipsi is made from hard water reed, called "iron spear" in the region. The spears used in Sipsi are the few-year-old spears that grow in thorny saplings that feed on water, not directly in the water, but at the edge of the water. Varieties called "Bucak Sipsisi", whose mouthpiece and body parts are made of a single reed, have been seen in Burdur's Bucak district and some villages. Another type is "double sipsi". Double sipsi; In the past, in the Teke region, two sipsis with the same holes and dimensions were played by tying them side by side with a rope.

Source: Ozanoğlu, T.2010. Folk Music of Burdur Province "A Study on Sipsi, Çifte Sipsi, Orta Kaba Zurna, Kabak Kemane and Three-Stringed Cura, Among the Otku Instruments Unique to Burdur" Burdur Folk Culture and Tourism Symposium from Past to Future, 203.