Innovative techniques in playing the «Koshnay» instrument

Human life has always been closely associated with music. wind instruments are also very old, that is, they are the first musical instruments. One of such instruments is koshnay, the sound of which is close to the heart, in the minds of listeners with its national melody. This article is about the ancient Uzbek national instrument koshnay. With the development of an appliqué that allowed the use of the chromatic scale and the identification of a specific range on the koshnay, the need arose to provide koshnay training at the conservatory. The growl style was used in the jazz world, and the same technique was used on the koshnai instrument in James Brown's “I Feel Good”.