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Fūteki (gender unknown)

original: 風笛

wind flute

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

Identical types: 42

Japanese transliteration (by ws) from the Chinese characters, confirmed by Japanese Embassy, Dept. of Cultural affairs, The Hague.

Sources

ws

Offner, Dr. Clark: Timely words (1987), ➺ Bagpipe (87/09/04).

Personal communication

Japanese Embassy (NL), e-mail 26 Oct. 2017.

Dictionaries, &c.

Spahn, Mark & Hadamitzky, Wolfgang: Japanese character dictionary, with compound lookup via any Kanji. Berlin/München, 1991, p.479 (2s7.1) & 1410 (6f5.6).