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Arghoul-el-kebyr (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: ارغول الکبير

large Arghoul

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece

Identical types: 25
Arghoul

Transliteration in Mahilllon, according to whom it is "№ 113 of the (former) coll. Fétis", adding that "According to Villoteau, the Arabs of Egypt have the custom, contrary to European usage, of closing the upper holes of their instruments with side openings with the right hand and the lower holes with the left hand" (NB¹: as seen from the viewer's perspective? [Compare Arghoul № 342 (p.402) !!!]); NB²: ➺ synonyms and related terms.

Chanter (left: 43,5 cm.; range: f-b, c¹-g¹); Drone (right); sizes & pitches: 55,5 cm.: e♭ (with 1 extension: 67 cm.: c; with 2 extensions: 83,5 cm.: A; with the 3 extensions: 98,5 cm.: F), to which Mahillon adds the remark (➺ p.165¹) that "the intonations of the right pipe should be raised by a semitone to be in harmonic relation with those of the left pipe", adding that "It is probable that an accidental cause, a change of reed, for example, has altered the pitch".
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Arghoul alkebir


Sources

Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, p.164-165.

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