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Mousel / Mousele [?] (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: de

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + drone / b: 1 additional drone)

Moezel

According to Boone, mentioned in a 1522 official record from Dendermonde (prov. East Flanders): NB¹: The name is also mentioned in Jacob Cats, »Hovwelick« [Marriage], (Middelburg, 1625), p.11R; NB²: Unfortunately, the reference to CATS 1 mentioned in WNT is inactive (yet) as a link [ws, Nov. 2021].

Sources

Boone, Hubert: De doedelzak. Woord vooraf door J. Van Haver en A. Doppagne… Inleiding door R. De Maeyer… Brussel, 1983, p.23 (Mouselen), 94 (note 83: »Vander Straeten).

Web

DBNL.org (Jacob Cats, »Houwelick« [title page]) & ibid (contents [Find mousel])
➺ WNT (Moezel; Mousel [➺ Remark to "Kan ick niet op een riet, of op een moesel quelen?"]: »Cats)
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