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Elymos (m)

(with) definite article: o

original: έλυμος (ὁ)

(the) ?

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), 2 bells / reed types?

No identical types known (yet).

Described by Pollux as a double-pipe [divergent or parallel?] of boxwood with an up-turning bell attached to each of the pipes.

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.57, 132.