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Dudelsack (m)

(with) definite article: der
plural: Dudelsäcke; (with) definite article: die
(the) blare bag; monotonously sounding bag; ➺ remark(s) below

Bagpipe: any type (even if foreign to the local tradition)

Identical types: 42
Bagpipe(s)

From Polish "dudlić" [to sing tunelessly]; Name first encountered, as an equivalent of Sackpfeife, in late 17th century sources; Generic term for all kinds of bagpipes, German or otherwise; Podnos, who fails to reveal his source, erroneously claims that in Germany the term is used in the southern regions only; NB¹: In his »The Englishman's handbook, or, How to deal with foreigners« (London, 2000), Idries Shah refers to a hoax story about a special protocol, that should be added to the conclusions of the 1991 Maastricht summit; He describes this Karneval (equivalent to April fool) joke as follows: "Although the protocol recognised the Scottish origins [sic; ws] of the bagpipe, under pressure from the German side it had been accepted that the Dudelheim influence was 'unmistakable', and the characteristic pipes originated from Hesse, a land of great piping culture. The bagpipes were therefore to be known as the Dudelsack"; NB²: ➺ Pipenbuck; NB³: ➺ Dutch Doedelzak; NB4: In his thesis, Valdis Muktupāvels mentions "Dudelsack" as a German AND (erroneously) even as a Dutch term!


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.26.

Sachs, Curt: Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde [1920]. Leipzig, 1930 (2), p.354.

Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, p.52.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Klier, »Sachs, Handbuch).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.22, 44.

Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.64 [3x], 68 [2x], 72 (№ 6), 90 [3x: ➺ ciev / čačkalo (am Dudelsacke) / da (Dudelsack-Scala)], 91 [8x: ➺ douda, duhalo, duvati, epkalo, gadljati, gâdlje/gadlji, gajde, glasnica], 92 [2x: ➺ jare, mu (Dudelsack-Scala)], 93 [6x: ➺ pipela, piriti gajde, pisak, prdalica, puhalo, rog gadljarski] & Dudelsäcke (plural [➺ roženje]), 94 [2x: ➺ svička, truba].

Ammer, Christine: The facts on file dictionary of music. New York, 2004 [4th ed.], p.22 (➺ bagpipe), 117.

Muktupāvels, Valdis: Latviešu mūzikas instrumentu sistemātika [Thesis]. Rīga, 1999, p.2, 26, 36 [3x], 114 (holandiešu [sic] un vācu [Dutch and German!]).

Web

Archive org. (Mahillon [Find dudelsack]).
ibidem (Kuhač [Find dudelsack]).
Google books (Shah, p.95-98 [on bagpipes; Find dudelsack: p.97; NB: footnote (1): ➺ p.217, Chapter 12]).
ibidem (Mahillon [Find dudelsack]).
ibidem (Ammer [Find dudelsack]).
Muktupāvels (PDF).
Wikipedia (Sackpfeife).