Sem jytyr (gender unknown)
original: сем йытыр
actual chanter of a double chanter
The actual chanter, with 4 fingerholes; NB¹: Mari "сем" translates as either "melody / tune" or "sound" (шӱ•выр сем: [the] sound of a bagpipe; гармо•нь сем: [the] sound of an accordion); NB²: ➺ Jytyr.
Ranges, according to "Manufacturing technology": large type (of the northeastern (Sernur) Mari): c¹-d¹-e♭¹-f¹-g¹-a♭¹; smaller type (of the Mari in the Yoshkar-Olinsky and Morkinsky regions): c¹-d¹-e¹-f¹-g¹-a¹. NB³: Unless cross-fingering is used, it is impossible to derive 6 tones from a tube with 4 fingerholes [!]; NB4: Range according to Boone: Left: c¹-(e♭¹)-f¹-g¹-(a♭¹).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.
Boone, Hubert: Bagpipes in the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of Mari. In: Proc. International bagpipe symposium… (The Hague, 1988), p.31, 35 (type only, no term).
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