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Mizmōr

original: ? (Hebrew)

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NEITHER a bagpipe term, NOR related to any of the other instruments treated in this survey

Identical types: 36

NOT a bagpipe, but the Hebrew spelling (meaning "psalm") of old Semitic "Mizmār"; According to Worrell the original meaning of this term must have been "instrument of music"; It is an enigma to me why Podnos considered it necessary to include this term in his chapter "Other names", thus confusingly suggesting it to be a bagpipe name.

Sources

Worrell, W.H.: Notes on the Arabic names of certain musical instruments. In: Jl. American Oriental Society 68;1 (Ann Arbor, MI, 1948), p.66-67.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.49 (»Worrell).