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Bot (m)

(with) definite article: el
(the) leather bag/wineskin

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + drone / b: 1 additional drone)

Identical types: 30

NB: ➺ homonyms.

Many bagpipers cover their chanters and drones with snakeskin, to protect the wood (and, as tradition wants it, "frighten the girls"); Mir Tierz thinks that "... la piel de serpiente forma parte de unas creencias mágicas en las que está envuelto el instrumento así como el intérprete dentro de unas danzas rituales de palos y espadas exclusivamente masculinas"; If I interpret his statement correctly, it translates as "... the snake skin is part of magical beliefs in which the instrument, as well as the performer, is involved in ritual dances with sticks and swords, exclusively performed by men" (Compare the English "Morris dances" and Romanian "Căluș").

Botiella, Gaita aragonesa, Gaita de boto, Gaita de fuelle


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.44, 58.

García-Oliva Mascarós, Alfonso: Museo de la Gaita: catálogo de las cornemusas del Museo de la Gaita de Gijón. Gijón, s.a. [1992], p.71 ("... asustar a las mozas").

Mir Tierz, Pedro: Pasado y presente de la gaita de boto aragonesa. In: Utriculus 2;3 (7), luglio-settembre 1993, p.11.

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Morris dancing in Oxford
Morris dance (The 2 Ronnies)
Căluș(ari).