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Sackpfiiffe (f)

(with) definite article: die
(the) bagpipe

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 61

According to Bachmann-Geiser, "A military instrument [exclusively?] until 1530, when it was substituted by fifes and drums, and played since by itinerant musicians and beggars only"; According to Klauser, "Still [i.e. late 20th century; ws] the traditional term".

Conical chanter, with bell; 1 drone, 1 octave below the lowest note of the chanter.

Sackpfiiffe


Sources

Bachmann-Geiser, Brigitte: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Schweiz (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/4). Leipzig, 1981, p.85 (»Idiotikon).

Klauser, Urs: Die Sackpfeife in der Schweiz. In: Utriculus IV;1 (13), gennaio/marzo 1995, p.8.