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Keraulis (m)

(with) definite article: o

original: κεραύλης (ὁ)

(the) hornpiper / horn blower [?]

any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

Identical types: 127

Van der Meer, who fails to reveal his source, suggests a relation with "a possible horn bell of the longer pipe", omitting, however, to give a translation of the term itself, thus risking to leave the reader, who may not be familiar with the Greek language, confused.

Kerataulis


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.57.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.128.