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Beissker (gender unknown)

? [reed; tube / pipe?]

NEITHER a bagpipe term, NOR related to any of the other instruments treated in this survey

Identical types: 34

According to Allmo, who fails to reveal his source, Estonian for Swedish "rör" (reed; tube / pipe); Dubious term, not encountered in other sources.

Sources

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.245.