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Przebierka (f)

➺ remark(s) below

single chanter: cylindrical, straight, bell / single reed

Identical types: 11

From "przebierać" [to change / stir]; NB¹: ➺ homonyms.

Range (example: B♭): f¹-a/(a♭)¹-b♭¹ [tonic]-c²-d²-e♭²-f²-g²; Recorded lengths (and pitches): county Gostyń: 185-200 mm (c♯-d); county Rawicz: 195-200 mm (e); Jarocin-Krotoszyn area: 205-?¹ mm (usually B, also c); Buk-Kościan area (i.e. county Nowy Tomyśl (Buk, Grodzisk), county Kościan (Kościan, Cempiń, and Krzywiń), county Śrem, and county Poznań): 202-212 mm (usually B♭, also B; In the extreme north of county Nowy Tomyśl it inclines to the pitch of county Szamotuły: A♭ (G♯)-A); county Leszno: 185-?¹ mm (normally A, exceptionally B♭²); county Szamotuły: 210-220 mm (A♭-B♭); county Wolsztyn: 213-225 mm (F♯-A♭); NB²: Sobieska’s survey lacks maximum measures, but she states that "disproportional reductions in the acoustic lengths of chanters in B♭ are compensated by long reeds weighted with wax"; NB³: She also mentions a non-tempered chanter in G, the range of which she describes as d¹↑-f♯¹↑-g¹↑-a¹-b¹↓-c²↑-d²↓-e²↓, providing exact details of the intervals.
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

Sobiescy, Jadwiga [Pietruszyńska] & Marian: Polska muzyka ludowa i jej problemy [Polish folk music and its problems]. Wybór prac pod redakcją Ludwika Bielawskiego [A selection of their works edited by Ludwik Bielawski]. Warszawa, 1973, p.91, 104, 105 (map), 108-109 (scales), 206, 251, 252.