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Dudelsack (m)

(with) definite article: der

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])

Identical types: 54

Generic term for all kinds of bagpipes, Austrian or otherwise; The documents found hitherto indicate that this name was adopted in the 17th century from the western Slavs (Czech Dudy, Polish Duda); The word Sackpfeife doesn’t occur in the popular speech of the Alpine countries.

Bockspfeife, Dudlsack, Fotzpfeife, Kobza, Tudelsack / Tudel Sack, Tutelsack


Sources

Klier, Karl M.: Volkstümliche Musikinstrumente in den [österreichischen] Alpen. Kassel, 1956, p.38.

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

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.16 (»Grove, 5th ed.), 44.