Sac de gemecs (m)
(with) definite article: elBagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 3 drones in 1 stock)
Unusually with the chanter situated in one of the forelegs, and the drone in the neck of the skin (Compare Xeremies (Balearics), and Krivolakavička gajda (Macedonia)).
NB¹: Compare German Jammertüte, and Danish Jamresække; NB²: ➺ Girls’ (Women’s) names.
Borrassa, Borrega, Bossa verda, Bot, Bot de la gaita, Bot de les nines, Bot de vent, Bot dels gemecs, Botella, Botet, Botó, Buna, Burra, Cabreta, Coixinera (verda), Cornamusa, Criatura verda, Gaita, Graile, Manxa borrega, Mossa verda, Museta, Noia verda, Sac de les aspres, Sach dels gemechs, Xeremía, Xirimía
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Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.42.
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), ➺ p.111, 134 (»Violant y Simorra).
Tomàs i Cucurull, Jordi: El sac de gemecs [The Catalonian bagpipe]. Llorà-Gironès, 1985.
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.31 (»Marcuse), 47.
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