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Boha (f)

(with) definite article: la
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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (single chanter + semidrone) / no drones

Identical types: 3

Pronounced as "bouhe" [= English: booh (!); WS]; According to Patrick Burbaud it actually means "to blow"; The author of »Airs du temps« claims, however, that it is a derivation of the verb "bohar" (to blow [pronounced as "bouha"]); One of the 2 most commonly used names (➺ Bouhaussac); Les Landes: Pays de Born, Marensin, and the Grande Lande; NB¹: ➺ homonyms, &c.; NB²: Entirely erroneously (and therefore confusingly), the Basque internet source (Euskadi) refers to it as a synonym of the Basque "Xirolarru", which is defined (correctly) as "a double clarinet similar to the Basque Alboka"; The rather grave mistake is caused, however, by the fact that this bagpipe should be mentioned in the section about the Basque bagpipe, which is also called a "Xirolarru", and described, on the same page, with the "synonyms" Bota (i.e. the "Gaita de bota" of La Rioja) and Gaita (i.e. the "Gaita gallega" [sic]); NB³: ➺ Bohalboka; NB4: ➺ my remarks to Tadghtita.

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Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.67-69.

Mabru, Lothaire: La cornemuse des Landes de Gascogne. Belin-Béliet, 1986, p.24.

Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.19.

Personal communication

Patrick Burbaud (Plovdiv (BG), March 2024: IBO conference): origin & pronunciation.

Web

bohaires.fr
museedelaboha.fr
euskadi.eus (Música: Descripción de los instrumentos de música, historia e información general)