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Volynka (f)

original: волынка

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

Identical types: 12
Volynka

With 3 drones in juxtaposition (from 1 stock); Recent development; NB: ➺ homonyms.

1st drone, 1 octave below the tonic of the chanter: 350 mm; 2nd, 1 fifth higher: 305 mm; 3rd, equal to chanter: 265 mm (2 pieces each, neither with a bell).

Sources

Куликов, Владимир Михайлович [Kulikov, Vladimir Mihajlovič (Spelling in Contents: Vladimir Michaïlovitch Koulikov)]: Волынка - русский народный инструмент (La cornemuse: instrument populaire russe). In: The bagpipes in Europe, 1 (1976), p.63.