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Großer Bock (m)

(with) definite article: der Große Bock
(the) big / large he-goat

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 61

Name in Praetorius; The largest 17th century bagpipe.

Gosser Bock, Grosser Bock

·? (chanter [Term not mentioned in available sources]), ·? (drone [Term not mentioned in available sources])

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile], p.166b.

Praetorius, Michael: Syntagma musicum, 2: de organographia. Wolfenbüttel, 1619. Herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt [1958]. Kassel, 1964 [facsimile (2)], p.25, 214 + pl.XI;6.

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.353, 354, 374.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.131 (»Praetorius).

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Grove; »Praetorius).