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Sackpfiiffe (f)

(with) definite article: die
(the) bagpipe

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

Identical types: 14
Sackpfiiffe

Seen in old pictures; Last observation 1891 [?].

Conical chanter, often with bell; 2 drones in 1 stock (Hümmelchen type), either both, or only the longer with bell.

Sources

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

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), ➺ p.118.