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Hu kya

original: ? (Chinese); ➺ remarks (below)

Hornpipe: type? / single chanter, bell / single reed (type?)

No identical types known (yet).

An extinct hornpipe, described by Courant as Cornet tartare; Probably the 胡笳 (hújiā), a reed instrument [with only 3 fingerholes?] used by the northern tribes in ancient China.


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.32 (»Lavignac).

Dictionaries, &c.

汉英词典 (Hàn Yīng cídiǎn) / A Chinese-English dictionary. 北京 [Běijīng], 1985, p.284 (胡笳).