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Schäfferpfeiff / Schäffer-pfeiff (m)

(with) definite article: der
(the) shepherd’s pipe

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 2 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 14

Names in Praetorius; Bagpipe with a chanter without thumbhole; NB: ➺ similar terms.

Herderspijp, Schaaforgel, Schäferpfeife, Schäferpfeiff, Schaffer Orgel, Schafforgel, Schaffsorgel, Schaforgel, Schafsorgel, Schaperpfeiff / Schaper Pfeiff

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

Sources

Praetorius, Michael: Syntagma musicum, 2: de organographia. Wolfenbüttel, 1619. Herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt [1958]. Kassel, 1964 [facsimile (2)], p.42 (Schäfferpfeiffern [die]), 43, 225 (SchafferPfeiff).

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.134 (»Praetorius).

Day, C.R. [Charles Russell]: A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890. London, 1891, p.55 (Schäffer-pfeiff).