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Zūqqara (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: [زوقِة ؟]

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

Identical types: 35

Generic Arabic term, with local varieties.

Usually made of goatskin (kid), doe, or gazelle with the bare hide inside; In Tunisia the hair is on the outside.

Maqrūn / Maqrūna, Suqqara, Zakhara, Zouqqara


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (Zûqqara).

Collinson, Francis: The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument. London, 1975, ➺ p.217.