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Balcsuegala (f)

(with) definite article: die
(the) bellows fife
Dudelsack

Alternative spelling of Balchsuegala in Graff; German Schwegel (from Old High German Suegala [shin bone]) translates as "fife"; Graff’s definition tympanum agrees with Buhle’s interpretation of the text in the Codices of Angers and London.

Sources

Graff, E.G.: Althochdeutscher Sprachschatz oder Wörterbuch der althochdeutschen Sprache, Bd. 6. Berlin, 1842, p.858.

Buhle (1), p.48 (Tympanum).

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.22 (»Marcuse), 49.

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