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Torupill (gender unknown)

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 59

From "toru" (tòru [pipe / tube]) + "pill" [musical instrument]; In Baines, who fails to reveal his source, oddly translated as "Trumpet-pipe"; The name is also used as a generic term for all kinds of bagpipes, Estonian or otherwise.

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Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (Toru-pill).

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.91, 133.

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.113.

Атлас музыкальных инструментов народов СССР = Atlas of musical instruments of the peoples inhabiting the USSR [1963]. Вертков, Константин А. (Vertkov, Konstantin A.) / Благодатов, Георгий И. (Blagodatov, Georgij I.) / Язовицкая, Эльза Э. (Jazovickaja, El’za E.). Москва (Moskva), 1975 (2), p.88 / 211.

Tonurist [sic], Igor [Tõnurist]: The Estonian bagpipe. In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.47, 53.

Allmo, Per-Ulf: Säckpipan i norden: från änglars musik till djävulens blåsbälg (Bagpipes in the nordic countries [From music of the angels to the devil’s bellows]). Stockholm, 1990, p.32.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.133.

Airs du temps: cornemuses du monde, musiques des régions. Ploezal, 1996, p.28.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (Toru pill: »Baines).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.19 (»Baines; »Zeiger), 47, 93-96, 105.