An instrument made [ca. 1950] by Ion Mihăilă of Palanca (department Moineşti, Bacău region, Moldavia), who named it, because of its sound, after the bagpipe; He modelled it after an old wooden instrument, which he had inherited from an uncle of his, Dumitru Gavrilaş, who died during the [2nd] World War.

The instrument, made from aluminium pipes, consists of a 26,3 cm long and 1,2 cm wide tube, slightly curved at one end and finished with a 8,5 cm tall bell in the shape of a "pipe", with the mouth having a diameter of 1,8 cm, and a second tube welded to the first one.

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