Sring

{{Short description|Musical instrument}}

{{Infobox Instrument

|name=Sring

|names=սրինգ, srink

|image=File:Blul-Yerevan1.jpg

|classification=Woodwind Instrument

|range=

|related=

• Atenteben (Ghana)
• Bansuri (India)
• Chi (China)
• Dizi (China)
• Daegeum (Korea)
• Dangjeok (Korea)
• Danso (Korea)
• Dongdi (China)
• Hocchiku (Japan)
• Jeok (Korea)
• Ji (Korea)
• Junggeum (Korea)
• Kagurabue (Japan)
• Khloy (Cambodia)
• Khlui (Thailand)
• Komabue (Japan)
• Koudi (China)
• Native American flute (United States and Canada)
• Nohkan (Japan)
• Ohe Hano Ihu (Polynesia)
• Paixiao (China)
• Quena (Andes)
• Ryūteki (Japan)
• Sáo (Vietnam)
• Shakuhachi (Japan)
• Shinobue (Japan)
• Siku (Andes)
• So (Korea)
• Sogeum (Korea)
• Suling (Indonesia)
• Tongso (Korea)
• Xiao (China)
• Xindi (China)
• Yak (Korea)
• Yokobue (Japan)
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Yue (instrument)|zh|3=籥|lt=Yue}} (China)

|musicians=

|articles= Armenian music

}}

The sring ({{langx|hy|սրինգ}}, also transliterated as {{transl|hy|srink}}) is a shepherd's flute originating in Armenia. Sring is also the common term for end-blown flutes in general.{{cite book |last1=McCollum |first1=Jonathan |chapter=Sring |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-4002214963 |website=Grove Music |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford Music Online |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.L2214963 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |accessdate=3 August 2019}} These flutes are made either of a stork bone, bamboo, wood from the apricot tree or cane and have or eight finger holes, producing a diatonic scale.The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century by Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel. Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk The Armenian musicologist Komitas believed that the sring was the most characteristic among the Armenian instruments.