Dudki doślubne (f) (plurale tantum)
Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
Literal translation: "Prenuptial dudki"; Surroundings of Zbąszyń (county Nowy Tomyśl) and Wolsztyn (Wielkopolska [Greater Poland]); Extinct (before World War I); It had the same ceremonial function as the Kozioł ślubny and was always played, in combination with a Mazanki [i.e. a small type of fiddle; ws], to accompany the bride and groom on their trip from the "chata weselna" [wedding cottage] to church, and during supper; According to Turek, the term dudki is encountered for the first time in the 17th century"; She also informs us that Barbara Szydłowska-Ceglowa emphasises, in »Staropolskie nazewnictwo instrumentów muzycznych« [Ancient Polish onomastics of musical instruments], that "[…] dudki can mean a small bagpipe (siesieńki?), but more often it has a caressing coloration"; NB: ➺ "Dopiero w dudki, ... ".
Dudki doślubne
Sobiescy, Jadwiga [Pietruszyńska] & Marian: Polska muzyka ludowa i jej problemy [Polish folk music and its problems]. Wybór prac pod redakcją Ludwika Bielawskiego [A selection of their works edited by Ludwik Bielawski]. Warszawa, 1973, p.125-126, 160.
Turek, Krystyna: Instrumenty muzyczne w górnośląskiej prozie i pieśni ludowej XIX wieku (Musical instruments in the Upper Silesian prose and folk song of the XIXth century). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.88 (»Szydłowska-Ceglowa).
Kubik, Józef: Przysłowia i wyrażenia przysłowiowe o instrumentach dętych (Proverbs and proverbial expressions about wind instruments). In: Polskie instrumenty ludowe… (1981), p.124-125 (»Krzyżanowski/Adalberg, I;359).
Słownik warszawski (1), I, p.580 (Dudki).