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·? (drone: low [Term not mentioned in available sources])

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low drone, retunable during playing: conical, bent, no bell, cavity? / double reed

No identical types known (yet).
Sourdeline

Invented (17th century) by the Duke of Braschane [Paolo Giordano II Orsini (d.1645 or 1656) ? (➺ internet source)].

Range (c¹-[g²?], chromatic); With 8 or 10 closed keys.
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.142.

Baldano, Giovanni Lorenzo: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare sopra le sordelline (Tablature book for playing the sordellina; Savona, 1600). Facsimile del manoscritto e studi introduttivi a cura di Maurizio Tarrini, Giovanni Farris, John Henry van der Meer. Savona, 1995, p.130.

Web

Seán Reid Society Journal, vol. 2. Nov. 2001 (2.17: Barry O’Neill, »The Sordellina…«, p.6: Duke of Braschane)