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original: [ناو ؟]

trough

double chanter, assembled: cylindrical, parallel, common bell / holes: various / single reeds

Identical types: 4

Yoke; One of the tubes [which one is said to depend on the player’s right- or left-handedness] may have the 2 or 3 upper holes blocked with beeswax (➺ type 2 and 3); Some chanters don’t have a bell; NB¹: ➺ homonyms.

Cane pipes (Arundo donax)*, embedded in a wooden yoke; (g¹-e²): 130-140 mm; *NB²: In Nurluca Köyü (district Çamlı Hemşin, prov. Rize) the material is called "toprak kamışı" [earth reed].
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.179 (type only, no term).

Picken, Laurence: Folk musical instruments of Turkey. London, 1975, p.528-530.