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Cuislenna (plurale tantum)

(with) definite article: ?
bag-pipes

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: double chanter / b: 3 drones in 1 stock)

No identical types known (yet).

Spelling in Flood.

3 parallel drones of unequal length.

Cuislean, Cuisleason pipe, Cuislinn

Anan [?], Bolg, Bollog na cuisli, Dudog, Readan [?]

Sources

Flood, William H. [Henry] Grattan: A history of Irish Music. Dublin, 1905, p.21.