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Mulitanky (f) (plurale tantum)

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: 3 drones in 1 stock)

Identical types: 12

Corruption of Moldánky, or from Latin "multus" [many / a lot] ?; According to Elschek, from "moldánky" (the Moldau region in Romania); Primitive type; Name sporadically encountered in 2nd half 18th-early 19th century literaturary sources; NB¹: According to Kuhač, a synonym of the Slovak Moldanky; NB²: ➺ homonyms & similar terms.

Mulitanky

Mechawka [Měchawka?]


Sources

Elschek, Oskár: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 2 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;2 [Slowakei]). Leipzig, 1983, p.203.

Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.69¹.

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Archive.org (Kuhač).