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Magrepha / Magrephah (gender unknown)

original: מגרפה

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Bagpipe: any type (even if foreign to the local tradition)

Identical types: 42

According to Engel, "the Magrepha, generally described as an organ, was more likely only [sic!] a kind of bagpipe"; NB¹: According to Podnos it was possibly a bagpipe of ca. 500 BC; NB²: Kuhač mentions the name as one of the Hebrew terms for organ; NB³: The internet offers numerous articles, with a variety of views [in my perception mainly conjectures] on the magrepha(h) as a type of instrument...


Sources

Engel, Carl: Musical instruments (South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks, edited by William Maskell, No. 5 – Musical instruments). New York, 1876, p.23.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975, p.325, 501 (➺ Symphony).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.42 (»Engel, Handbook).

Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.77 (Orgulje [!]).

ws (internet sources)

Web

Google books (Engel [Find magrepha: p.23]).
Archive.org (Kuhač).