Evaluation of preferences of tonguless pipe as a profession instrument in the conservatory of Turkish music education

Our folk instruments have been forming one of the most crucial parts of our cultural values. As folk melodies are a reflection of the feelings and thoughts of the people that have become words and music in a sense. Kaval is one of the most significant and ancient representatives of our folk instruments. Even if it is produced with different materials in particular, the kaval instrument reflects the common features of many civilizations. Therefore, it was aimed to investigate the development process of kaval instrument, performance characteristics and reasons of preference as individual instrument in various educational institutions. The research has served a purpose to make due diligence and exhibits a descriptive structure. Throughout the research process, written and digital sources have been searched to obtain historical information about the subject, and then, personal interview and questionnaire techniques have been used to obtain findings. Qualitative and quantitative data have been evaluated together by using a mixed design. If some of the results of the research have been listed, Kaval has been one of the most significant folk instruments, a symbol of cultural values of public, it will be some of the first things that come to mind when it is highly effective to have the instrument easily preferred, widely recognized and known, to support many theoretical performance features and to have sufficient number of training opportunities. Key words: Woodflute, Traditional Turkish Folk Music, Folk Song