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Kejdy (f) (plurale tantum)

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Dudy

According to Kunz, "Until the end of the 18th century, the word group Kejdy is used as a name for the bagpipe in Bohemia, then it gradually disappears from usage, respectively changes into the word group Gajdy, which is widespread in East Moravia"; NB: ➺ Kegdy.

Kejdy

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (Kejdý).

Kunz, Ludvík: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 1 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;1 [Böhmen und Mähren]). Leipzig, 1974, p.121.

Markl, Jaroslav: Česká dudácká hudba: partitury Ludvíka Kuby ([Czech bagpipe music: the scores of Ludvík Kuba]). Praha, 1962, p.13.