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Sack pfyff (m)

(with) definite article: der
(the) bag pipe
Dudelsack

From a 1517 description of a "Totentanz [Dance of Death] of Kienzheim/Oberelsaß" (= Kientzheim [NW of Colmar], France).

Sources

Schmidt, Ernst Eugen: "Sein polnisch Duday dises war…": Bildquellen zur Geschichte der Sackpfeife. In: Der Dudelsack in Europa, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Bayerns (1996), p.25.