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Tibia pares (f)

(with) definite article: illa [this]
➺ remark(s) below

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), no bell / idioglot single reeds: down-cut

Identical types: 5

From "tibia" [flute (originally: shin-bone)] + "pares" [equal]; According to Fraser, the Latin term for a hornpipe without a mouthpiece, and with 2 pipes of equal length (Compare the Egyptian Qurma(h) and Turkish Çifte); NB¹: The type with 2 pipes of different length would be called Tibia impares; In a Latin-Dutch dictionary, published 1998 by the Amsterdam University Press, the latter term is oddly translated as "double flute", instead of "unequal flute"; NB²: ➺ Tikia pares.

Tikia pares


Sources

Fraser, Alexander Duncan: Some reminiscences and the bagpipe. Edinburgh, 1907, p.230 [pares & impares] (➺ plate between p.168-169).