Cimpoieș / Cimpoĭeș (m)
(with) definite article: CimpoieșulFrom Miron Costin (1633-1691), »Letopisețul Țarii Moldovei de la Aaron Vodă încoace« [Chronicle of the Moldavian country of Aaron the Tyrant († 1597)], in which he describes the events between 1595 and 1661, including a report on a banquet at which "cim-poĭeșul [sic] cu cimpoile îmbrăcate de urșinicǔ…", which Habenicht translates as "the piper played on a bagpipe wrapped in expensive silk…" [Though "urșiníc" actually is an obsolete term for "catifea" [velvet]; ws]; NB: Note the deviating spelling in Alexandru, and the incorrect reference (to p.77) in the index (Materii; ➺ Cimpoiaș).
Habenicht, Gottfried: Die rumänischen Sackpfeifen. In: Jb. f. Volksliedforschung, 19. Jahrgang (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1974), p.122 (»Breazul).
Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.14 («cimpoieșul cu cimpoile»; »Aron [sic] Vodă).
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