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Mizmār muṭannā (gender unknown)

original: ? (Arabic (Egypt))

?

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), bell? / reed types?

Identical types: 5

Mentioned by Elsner/Jabès as "one of the various types of widespread used double wind instruments" [mentioned] in references by al-Farabi", with the remark that "Nothing of that can be interpreted as evidence for a double instrument of the Arġūl type".


Sources

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