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Sîpcă [Sîncă?] (f)

(with) definite article: Sîpca
plural: Sîpce [?]; (with) definite article: Sîpcele [?]
➺ remark(s) below

idioglot single reed with the vibrating end of its tongue facing stock and bag, or the mouth of the player

Identical types: 15
Cimpoi*

Translation unknown; NB¹: Orthography between 1948 and 1992 (After 1992 the spelling would be Sâpcă [or Sâncă], neither of which I was unable to detect in dictionaries); NB²: Note the odd discrepancy between the spelling in Alexandru's text («sîpcă») and that in the index (➺ Sources).

Made of elder (Sambucus nigra).

Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.90; NB: NOT as such in index (Materii), but ➺ p.388 (sîncă [sic] !).

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ws: Not in Dexonline (neither Sîpcă [Sâpcă], nor Sîncă [Sâncă] !)