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Zūkra (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: مِزود

?

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

Identical types: 35

Very popular; Rarely wanting at family celebrations, it is generally accompanied by the Dendūn, a double-skin cylindrical drum (similar to the Turkish Davul).

Chkara, Mazūd, Zokra, Zoughara, Zuqqāra


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.37.

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.182 (Zukra).

Collaer, Paul & Elsner, Jürgen: Nordafrika (Musikgeschichte in Bildern 1/8). Unter Mitarbeit von Brahim Bahloul, Charles Duvelle Helmut Hoffmann-Burchardi, Andrée Jabès, Angelika Jung, Vaclav Kubica, Sālih al-Mahdī, Nour-al-Din al-Salihi und Lothar Stein. Leipzig, 1983, p.78 (Zukra).

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.127 (Nordafrika).

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (of Tripoli; »Baines; »Sachs, History [?]).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.15, 16 (Zukra: »Baines; »Farmer, Oriental instr.; »Sachs, History [?]).