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Bąk (m)

➺ remark(s) below

only drone, adjustable: cylindrical, straight, no bell, cavity? / single reed

Identical types: 7
Dudy podhalańskie

From "bąkać" [to mumble / mutter]; Main drone; Tatra mountains; NB¹: ➺ Bąk (synonym of Bas) for the remark on the etymology of the term; NB²: ➺ homonyms, &c.

300-650 mm (pitch, according to Kopoczek: F).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.368.

Przerembski, Zbigniew Jerzy: Dudy: dzieje instrumentu w kulturze staropolskiej ([The bagpipe: the history of the instrument in old Polish culture]). Warszawa, 2006, p.34.

Kopoczek, Alojzy: Ludowe instrumenty muzyczne polskiego obszaru karpackiego: instrumenty dęte (Folk instruments in the Polish Carpathian region: wind instruments). Rzeszów, 1996, p.117.