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Ugab (gender unknown)

original: ?

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

Identical types: 42

According to Flood, a Hebrew term meaning "a pipe or bagpipe, or wind instrument in general" (German equivalent: "Pfeife"), which he considers a more satisfactory translation […] than "organ"; »Smith’s Bible Dictionary« (1884) defines the term as "The syrinx, pandean pipe or bagpipe (ugab), translated "organ" (➺ Genesis 4:21)", but in [M.G.] »Easton’s Bible Dictionary« (1897) it is rendered as [A (➺ Jubal)] "organ" (Heb. ugab, properly "mouth-organ" or Pan’s pipe), and [B (➺ Music, instr.)] "probably the so-called Pan’s pipes or syrinx"; Stainer introduces the term with a question: "Was the ugab a syrinx [panpipe; ws] or an organ? (NB: ➺ p.97).


Sources

Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.1.

Stainer, John: The music of the Bible. With an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. London, s.a. [1879], passim [10x].

Web

ccel.org (Smith)
ccel.org (Easton).
Google books (Stainer [Find ugab]); NB: ➺ also APPENDIX, p.178, 179 [3x].
Archive org. (Stainer [Find ugab]).