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ยท? (a hornpipe [Term not mentioned in available sources])

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

Identical types: 5

Probably a 7th-8th century relic, found (1933) in an Avar grave; The earliest known specimen of unequal-holed parallel double-pipe.

Made of crane-bone; Left (170 mm): slant-cut outwards / Right (broken at lower end, complete probably also 170 mm); No trace of a horn bell is found.


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.51 (type only, no term).