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Diyānai (gender unknown)

original: ? (Arabic (Iraq))

double-nai (double-pipe)

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), bell? / reed types?

Identical types: 5

According to Farmer first mentioned by Abu’l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khurdādhbih († 912), according to Baines, however, by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Fārābi († 950), who, according to Farmer, describes it as the Mizmār al-muzzawaj [married Mizmār] instead; NB: Compare Dūnāy (Egypt).

Divergent pipes with 4 holes each; Left: D-A / Right: A-F.
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Mizmār al-muzzawaj


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.101.

Farmer, Henry George: Studies in Oriental musical instruments, 2. Glasgow, 1939, p.82 (»Ibn Khurdādhbih).