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Zouggarah (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: ? (Arabic)

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From Carl Engel, »A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington Museum« (1870), p.28 (➺ GHAÏDA [elucidation, in which Engel defines it as an Arab-Egyptian instrument; NB: According to Stainer, "Fig. 69 shows an Arabian instrument of this class, called by them souqqarah or zouggarah", adding that "it is of goat-skin, and the two pipes with finger-holes are tipped with horn".

According to Stainer, "The scale consists of four notes, A to D of the treble stave, both pipes being in unison".
Staff-notation to be added..


Sources

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.16 (»Engel).

Stainer, John: The music of the Bible. With an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. London, s.a. [1879], p.119/* (NB: 2nd edition (ca.1914), p.146/*-147).

Web

Google books (Engel [Find ghaïda [sic]: ➺ p.28]).
ibidem (Stainer [NB: Scroll to p.119]).
Archive.org (Engel, 2nd ed., 1874 [Find zouggarah: ➺ p.214]).
ibidem (Stainer [Find zouggarah: Page n181 (= p.146/*)]).