The Chuniri (Georgian: ჭუნირი), also known as Hisyn (Ossetian: Хъисын), is a bowed musical instrument played in Georgia and Ossetia.

Accompaniment of solo songs, national heroic poems and dance melodies were performed on it in Svaneti.

In Svaneti and Racha people even could make a weather forecast according to the sound produced by chianuri.

For instance, one of the relatives (man) of a dead person would sit down in open air by the bonfire and play a sad melody.

In his song (sang in a low voice) he would remember the life of the deceased person and the lives of ancestors of the family.