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Multanki* (gender unknown) (plurale tantum)

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym, used for a kind of flute, mentioned in Oskar Kolberg, »Dziela wszystkie« [Collected works] as appearing in pastoral texts (➺ vols. 5 (p.239), 16 (p.106), 24 (p.102), and 46 (p.6)), and in one of the noble-bourgeois songs (➺ vol.41 (p.525)); According to Dahlig, it is also called Multanka; NB: ➺ homonyms & similar terms.


Sources

Dahlig, Piotr: Instrumentarium muzyczne w dzielach etnograficznych Oskara Kolberga ([The musical instrumentarium in the ethnographic works of Oskar Kolberg]). In: Muzyka 33;3 (130) (Wrocław, 1988), p.81 (»Kolberg).