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Dūdinieks (m)

plural: Dūdinieki
piper(s)

any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

Identical types: 127

Generic term for any piper, Latvian or otherwise; Definition in Rudens explanatory dictionary: "Dūdas vai somu dūdu spēlētājs" [Player of a Dūda or Somu dūda (Finnish bagpipe)]; NB: In Wordhippo erroneously interpreted as a Lithuanian term.

Dūdenieks, Dūdnieks, Stabulnieks

Sources

Muktupāvels, Valdis: Latviešu mūzikas instrumentu sistemātika [Thesis]. Rīga, 1999, p.22, 29, 49, 118.

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Muktupāvels (PDF)
Tezaurs.lv (Rudens, 2020)
wordhippo [2016]