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Sakwa (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: [سَكول ؟]

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter) / no drones

Identical types: 35

NB: ➺ Shkewa (Shkeywa).

Usually made of a goatskin, with horns decorating the shoulders, a blowpipe, and twin pipes (with parallel fingerholes), both with a cow-horn bell.


Sources

Collaer, Paul & Elsner, Jürgen: Nordafrika (Musikgeschichte in Bildern 1/8). Unter Mitarbeit von Brahim Bahloul, Charles Duvelle Helmut Hoffmann-Burchardi, Andrée Jabès, Angelika Jung, Vaclav Kubica, Sālih al-Mahdī, Nour-al-Din al-Salihi und Lothar Stein. Leipzig, 1983, p.114.