Zummāra / Zummârah (gender unknown)
(with) definite article: ?original: [compare زمار (Sachs)] الزصمارة
Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), no bell / idioglot single reeds: up-cut
Generic names for the 4 sizes of this double clarinet; In Podnos ignorantly spelt Zummarah; NB¹: ➺ Aġānim; NB²: ➺ remark in Mizmār qirba; According to Elsner/Jabès, "used in Ancient Egypt at least since the IVth Dynasty (»Hickmann).
Cane pipes, tied together with waxed yarn.
Dinka, Maït / Ma-it, Maluč, Mam, Mem, Memet, Zoomma’rah, Zoummārah
Hickmann, Hans: Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée de Caire – Nos 69201-69852 – Instruments de musique. Le Caire [Cairo], 1949, ➺ p.138-139*.
Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, p.397 (Zummârah; ➺ № 324: Darâboukkeh rek).
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, ➺ p.15 (Zummarah: »Cocks (Grove)).
Elsner, Jürgen & Jabès, Andrée: Der Arġūl. In: Collaer [et al.]: Nordafrika (1983), p.42, 44, 68, 69* (ill. 57).