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Zurna* (f)

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a term used for a shawm; According to Marcuse and Podnos "the name of the bagpipe in the Caucasus", the former dubiously referring to Baines as her source (in which the name isn’t even mentioned at all, however), the latter to Cocks (in »Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians« (1954)), instead; NB¹: The misunderstanding is possibly based on the fact that Jacquot describes it, rather oddly, as an "Armenian bagpipe, made up of two wineskins [sic] and a bell shaped like a conch, provided with six holes"; NB²: A homonym of the Montenegrin Diple (a hornpipe), as well, the term Zurna also occurs in the name of Turkish and Azeri bagpipes (➺ Tulum- & Tulup-zurna).

Zourna*


Sources

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines [?]).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.21 (»Cocks (Grove)).

Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.275 (Armenia).

ws (linguistics [➺ Dictionaries, &c.]).

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Google books (Jacquot [Find zurna (NB: Note the odd alphabetical order!)]).