Utricularium (n)
From "uter" [leather bag]; According to Marcuse, "the bagpipe of ancient Rome", dubiously referring to Sachs (Handbuch) as her source (in which it is not mentioned); Jacquot mentions it once as a Roman synonym of cornemuse, and again as an entry with a brief description, which reads as follows [transl. ws]: "Bagpipe of the Romans, formed of a sewn goatskin, and to which are added a blowpipe and a pipe pierced with holes, ending with a bell. The bagpipe is an instrument of the highest antiquity; the reader will also notice that it provided the principle of the air reservoir, feeding pipes; this is the origin of the primitive organ"; NB: ➺ Sampogna.
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.349.
Burdet, Jacques: La danse populaire dans le pays de Vaud sous la régime Bernois. Bâle, 1958, p.144 (a type of musette).
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Sachs, Handbuch [?]).
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.25 (»Trichet), 47.
Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.62 (Cornemuse; ➺ Utricularium), 253-254.
Stainer, John: The music of the Bible. With an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. London, s.a. [1879], p.[118], 122.