Mari music

Mari music is generally pentatonic.

[1] Mari songs are generally short and lyrical.

[1] Common themes include the Volga river, and a love of nature, to include forests and rainbows.

[2] Mari instruments include the kusle or karsh, a type of zither.

The Mari also play the tumyr (drum), birch-bark horn, accordions, and a Mari bagpipe, the shuvyr.