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Sibs ġāb (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: ?

?

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece

Identical types: 25
Argul / Arġūl

Transliteration in Elsner/Jabès, who translate "ġab" as "Rohr / Schilfrohr" (cane), mentioning the name among the "various sizes and varieties", but unfortunately fail to provide essential details; NB¹: ➺ Arġul ġāb; NB²: According to Elsner/Jabès the term Sibs (also Sibz) is also "used by the folk musicians to denote several small, high-pitched types of wind instruments of the class of flutes, oboes and clarinets".


Sources

Elsner, Jürgen & Jabès, Andrée: Der Arġūl. In: Collaer [et al.]: Nordafrika (1983), p.42.