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Zāmar (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: [زامَر ؟]

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), 2 bells / idioglot single reeds: down-cut

Identical types: 2

Played by the Berbers of the Rif mountains, in ceremonies that have been judged to be pre-Islamic.

Zammāra, Zamr

Zāmar


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.33 (Zāmar).

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.183.

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

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines).