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Cuisley cuil (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?
?

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])

Identical types: 54

Day describes this as "of more simple make" [than the Adharcaidh cuil] and "employed as a means of marking the measure for the Rinkey, or field dance, of the ancient Irish"; According to Jacquot it is the "old irish bagpipe".


Sources

Day, C.R. [Charles Russell]: A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890. London, 1891, p.54.

Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.62.

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Google books (Jacquot [Find Cuisley-cuil]).