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Skamora (gender unknown)

original: (скамора)

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (2-3 pipes: chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])

Identical types: 2

Mordvinians, district Penza; Almost extinct; NB: I suspect a relation with Russian term скоморох (Skomoroh [itinerant minstrel-cum-clown; Also: buffoon]).


Sources

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.76 / 209.

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