Multanki (gender unknown) (plurale tantum)
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])
From a 1721 manuscript, discovered in the Carmelite monastery in Kraków; According to Kubik, "the term "multanki" itself derives from the name of the country "Multany", which designates Moldova. It [i.e. the term; ws] appeared in the Polish language in the 16th century, and the instrument occurred in ensembles together with Dudy. From the 18th century, Dudy were also designated as Multanki; In several dialects its singular form, "multanka", indicates a pisczałka [i.e. a kind of flute or fife; ws]"; NB¹: ➺ Gajda (Poland), and "Zdechł niedźwiedź, ..."; NB²: ➺ homonyms & similar terms.
Multanki
Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.127.
Przerembski, Zbigniew Jerzy: Dudy: dzieje instrumentu w kulturze staropolskiej ([The bagpipe: the history of the instrument in old Polish culture]). Warszawa, 2006, p.25 (»Krzyżaniak).
Słownik warszawski (1), I, p.792.
Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.69¹ (»Jireček).