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Physeteria (plurale tantum)

original: ? (Greek)

(the) bellows pipes [?]

Bagpipe (unknown type)

Identical types: 100

From Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης, ca. 446 BC-ca. 386 BC), »Lysistrata« (Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη; first performance: Athens, 411 BC); NB: ➺ Remark to Physallides.

Fysatíría


Sources

Galpin, Francis William: The music of the Sumerians, and their immediate successors: the Babylonians & Assyrians. Cambridge, 1937, p.68.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.42 (»Galpin).

Web

Wikipedia (Lysistrata).