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Xalamias (f) (plurale tantum)

(with) definite article: ?
?; ➺ remark(s) below

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: chanter type? / b: ? [additional] drones in 1 stock)

No identical types known (yet).

Corruption of Xeremies?; Mentioned among the instruments brought by the minstrels who were taken from Aragón to Naples by king Alfonso V "the Magnanimous" (1396-1458); Aragonese origin uncertain / doubtful [?].

Xalamias

Sources

Novoa González, María del Carmen: La gaita y la cornamusa en Galicia y Francia: tesis de licenciatura defendida en la Facultad de Filología (sección de filología francesa) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, en septiembre de 1978. Sada, 1980, p.22.

Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.25.