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Stviri (-)

original: სტვირი

➺ remark(s) below
Gudastviri

From სტვენა (stvèna [to whistle / sing]).

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.48.

Атлас музыкальных инструментов народов СССР = Atlas of musical instruments of the peoples inhabiting the USSR [1963]. Вертков, Константин А. (Vertkov, Konstantin A.) / Благодатов, Георгий И. (Blagodatov, Georgij I.) / Язовицкая, Эльза Э. (Jazovickaja, El’za E.). Москва (Moskva), 1975 (2), p.125.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.127.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines).