“I STARTED TO PLAY, THE PIPE BEGAN TO SPEAK LIKE A HUMAN” (Review on: <i>BoyarkinN.I., BoyarkinaL.B.</i> Mordovian Instrumental Traditions: Musical and Ethnographic Research: In 2 volumes. Saransk: Publishing house of the Mordovia State University, 2019)
The article represents a review of the fundamental work of N. I. and L. B. Boyarkin, dedicated to the musical and instrumental culture of the Mordovian people. The authors have worked their way of comprehending the Mordovian instrumental traditions from the development of the proprietary technology of field research to the creation of a large-scale typology of both musical instruments and music performed on them.