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Wood types used

wood types, used in bagpipe making

Identical types: 29

Commonly boxwood (Buxus sempervirens), occasionally walnut (Juglans regia); In the Çoruh valley also willow (Salix) or poplar (Populus).

Sources

Picken, Laurence: Folk musical instruments of Turkey. London, 1975, p.529.

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