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Síp (-)

(with) definite article: a
whistle, pipe

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + semidrone / b: drone)

Identical types: 10

According to Hungarian-American piper and pipe-maker Ferenc Tobak (*ca. 1945), this is "an old name for the Hungarian Duda in Moldavia (RO)", where it is pronounced Sip [i.e. without the acute "í"]; NB: I wonder if the Romanian (Moldavian) spelling would be Şip, which would correspond with the Hungarian pronunciation (in Hungarian orthography the Latin letter "S" is pronounced like the Slavic "Š" (IPA: ʃ ), whereas the sound of the Latin "S" is represented in Hungarian by the digraph "SZ".

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Sources

Juhász, Katalin: Amerikából jöttem… Interjú Tobak Ferenccel [I am from the USA… An interview with Ferenc Tobak [on Hungarian bagpipes and pipers in Transylvania and Moldavia, Romania; ws]]. In: folkMAGazin VI;3 (1999), p.17 (»Tobak).

Personal communication

Mr. Ferenc Tobak (Fort Bragg, CA, USA), e-mail 19 Apr. 2025.

Web

issuu.com (Amerikából jöttem...)
tazlo.hu (László Németh, »Magyar népzene Moldvában« [Hungarian folk music in Moldavia], [part] 7: Hangszerek [Instruments] / 4: A duda [The bagpipe])
YouTube (Ferenc Tobak, introduction to the Síp and Csimpoly [2014])