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Mendyka, Józef

ca. 1884-?

bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name

Lived in Miąskowo (county Środa), but he played at parties in Czeszewo (county Września); The easternmost piper of Wielkopolska [Greater Poland].

Instrument: Dudy wielkopolskie

Sources

Sobiescy, Jadwiga [Pietruszyńska] & Marian: Polska muzyka ludowa i jej problemy [Polish folk music and its problems]. Wybór prac pod redakcją Ludwika Bielawskiego [A selection of their works edited by Ludwik Bielawski]. Warszawa, 1973, p.93 (»Durczewski), 132.