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Piuk (gender unknown)

plural: ?
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reed consisting of a base (the Body) with a vibrating blade (the Tongue)

Identical types: 55
Torupill

From "piuks" [shrill sound] ?; In Allmo dubiously translated as "Rörblad" [Reed-blade; The only Swedish names for reed, encountered in other sources, are: Rör, Stämma, Träpipa, Tunga (➺ Rehnberg, p.75), Tungpipa, Vasspipa, Vassrör, and Vass-stämma].

Made of cane [Arundo donax?] or (rarely) goose quill.

Keel, Raag, Roog, Stämma, Tungpipa, Vass-stämma, Vasspipa, Vassrör, Vile

Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.115.

Tonurist [sic], Igor [Tõnurist]: The Estonian bagpipe. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.49.

Allmo, Per-Ulf: Säckpipan i norden: från änglars musik till djävulens blåsbälg (Bagpipes in the nordic countries [From music of the angels to the devil’s bellows]). Stockholm, 1990, p.245.

Personal communication

Evelin Põldoja (Zaandam (NL), 2001), translation.