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Carabă (f)

(with) definite article: Caraba

single chanter: cylindrical, bent, no bell / single reed

Identical types: 7
Carabă

Made out of one piece of wood, bent at a 90° or slightly sharper angle at its lower end, which may even have the shape of a funnel with a slightly conical bore.
Type 1: Moldavia (RO); Type 2: Muntenia and Oltenia; Type 3: Dobrogea and Muntenia; NB¹ ➺ homonyms; NB²: ➺ Karaba and similar terms.

Sources

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.78.

Alexandru, Tiberiu: Dudelsack in Rumänien. In: Musikblatt extra 91 (Göttingen, 1991), p.21.

Habenicht, Gottfried: Die rumänischen Sackpfeifen. In: Jb. f. Volksliedforschung, 19. Jahrgang (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1974), p.130, 147*.