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tuning piece of the low drone
Tuning piece of the bass drone; A wooden joint, ending in a metal tube with a 180° bend, its opening facing the piper; Before tuning the other drones, the bass is silenced with a pat on that opening; NB: ➺ Sound box.
For added strength, a strutt is silver soldered between the two sides of the bend.
Breathnach, Breandán: The Irish pipes. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.3.
Garvin, Wilbert: The Irish bagpipes: their construction and maintenance [Belfast 1978, Blackstaff Press]. Foreword by Breandán Breathnach. Kells, 1988 (2), p.18.
Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.209 (Slider).
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.371.