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Double-bass regulator

very low semidrone, retunable during playing: conical, straight, no bell, no cavity / double reed

No identical types known (yet).
Regulator

The lowest of all regulators, part of the Great Irish Pipe only.

4 keys (G, A, B, c).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.222.

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.84 (➺ Uillean [sic] pipe).