Cimpoi (m)
(with) definite article: CimpoiulBagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
Originally very popular, now [i.e. 1950s] rarely encountered; Name in Latin script, applied 1860-1940 and after August 1989 (before 1860 a script based on the Old Church Slavonic alphabet was used); NB¹: ➺ Romania; NB²: ➺ homonyms.
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.62 / 206.
Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.130 (»Alexandru).
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