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Karkın (-)

original: (каркин [?])

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (chanter type?)

Identical types: 5

Late 18th-early 19th century; According to Picken,"the name is presumably that of the lance-reed, already noted as the material from which double-pipes are made in Hatay" (➺ Çifte).

With a bag made of goatskin.

Karkm


Sources

Picken, Laurence: Folk musical instruments of Turkey. London, 1975, p.548 (»Yalgın).