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Masḥoûrah (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: صج^دل

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Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), no bell / idioglot single reeds: down-cut

Identical types: 5

From مسحورة (masğur [enchanted]) ?; Small Zummāra with only 4 fingerholes in each tube; According to Hickmann, "its main characteristic are its down-cut reeds, a difference that is already highlighted by Y. Loret."; French transliteration in Hickmann.

Masḥūra


Sources

Hickmann, Hans: Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée de Caire – Nos 69201-69852 – Instruments de musique. Le Caire [Cairo], 1949, p.138-139*.

Web

Archive.org (Hickmann [Find mashourah (Website: Pages n147 (= p.138) and n148 (= p.139/*)])