Zitty (gender unknown)
original: ? [Hindi?]
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter) / no drones
Fétis, who provides a very brief description, refers to it as a "musette of the regency Madras"; Jacquot, who provides a similar description, defines it as an "Indian Musette" (NB: ➺ Musette (France).
Bag made of tanned skin, with the blowpipe and chanter (according to Fétis and Stainer with 7 fingerholes) in the forelegs.
·? (chanter [Term not mentioned in available sources]), ·? (chanter [Term not mentioned in available sources])
Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (»NY [Crosby Brown], 264).
Fétis, François-Joseph: Histoire générale de la musique depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu’à nos jours, 1 & 2. Paris, 1869, vol. 2, p.303.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.24.
Utriculus, nuova serie XIV (49-50), 2015, Miscellanea zampognara, p.122-123: “Une autre espèce de musette“ (»Féti [sic], vol II, p.302-303).
Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.275.
Stainer, John: The music of the Bible. With an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. London, s.a. [1879], p.120.