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Cimpoiaș / Cimpoĭáș (m)

(with) definite article: Cimpoiașul
(the) piper
Cimpoier

From early texts (after the 16th century, though), describing royal wedding festivities; NB: ➺ Cimpoieș.

Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.14 (cimpoiași), 77 [2x: cimpoiași, «cimpoiașul, cu cimpoile...»; »Aron [sic] Vodă)], 313 (ex.38: «cimpoiaș»).

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Dudelsack in Rumänien. In: Musikblatt extra 91 (Göttingen, 1991), p.21.

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