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Plaszbalg (m)

(with) definite article: der
(the) bellows
Blasebalg

From a 1596 inventory of the instrument collection of Ambras Castle, Innsbruck (Tirol, Austria); The instrument described is the oldest known Musette de cour existing, now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Vienna.

Sources

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964) (p.141; »Schlosser).

Meer, John Henry van der: La sordellina: organologia e tecnica esecutiva. In: Baldano: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare… (1995), p.75.

Wilzek, Ernst: Die Barock-Musette: vom Schäferinstrument zum Virtuoseninstrument. In: Tibia (s.l., 1995;3), p.502.

Wilzek, Ernst: Die Barock-Musette: vom Schäferinstrument zum Virtuoseninstrument (La musette barocca: da strumento di pastori a strumento per virtuosi: sommario di Antonietta Caccia su traduzione di Gabriella Potito). In: Utriculus V;4 (20), ottobre/dicembre 1996, p.12.

Personal communication

Ernst Wilzek (Scapoli (I), July 1997).