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Sac de gemecs (m)

(with) definite article: el
(the) bag of moans

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 3 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 12

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.

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Sources

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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