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Bas jytyr (gender unknown)

original: бас йытыр

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2nd pipe/tube of a double chanter

Identical types: 2
Šŭvyrpu

The actual "second voice" pipe, with 2 fingerholes; NB¹: Mari "бас" translates as "bass" (voice, string or [accordion: left hand] button); NB²: ➺ Jytyr.

Ranges: large type (of the northeastern (Sernur) Mari): e♭¹-f¹-g¹ [?]; smaller type (of the Mari in the Yoshkar-Olinsky and Morkinsky regions): e¹-f¹-g¹ [?].
NB³: Range according to Boone: Right: c¹-d¹-(e♭¹).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.


Sources

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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Web

Mari Research Institute (Технология изготовления шўвыр (волынки) [Manufacturing technology of the Šŭvyr (bagpipe)]; NB: in Russian only)
Mari dictionary (➺ Cyrillic / All matches: бас [1 & 2])