Pilai (-)
Described in Guthrie as "… [a bag] with only 2 shawms, independent of the inflating tube" … "often made of undressed goatskin with the hair on it…"; In Van der Meer erroneously labelled Estonian (Ingermanland [which borders on Estonia]); NB: ➺ Pillias.
Bag made of undressed goatskin.
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.92 [poor translation of "chalumeaux" (pipes); "souvent" NOT translated at all].
Allmo, Per-Ulf: Säckpipan i norden: från änglars musik till djävulens blåsbälg (Bagpipes in the nordic countries [From music of the angels to the devil’s bellows]). Stockholm, 1990, p.34, 524 (1795).
Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.133.
Meer, John Henry van der: Beitrag zur Typologie der westeuropäischen Sackpfeifen. In: SIMP I (Stockholm, 1969), p.103.
Guthrie, Matthieu: Dissertations sur les antiquités de Russie. Saint-Petersbourg, 1795, p.27.
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines).
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.29.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.19 (»Baines).