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Mezued (m)

(with) definite article: ?

original: مِزود

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter) / no drones

Identical types: 35

From Arabic مِزْود (mizwàd [reservoir, skin bag]); Mainly central Tunisia; As a metonym, the term is also used for a popular type of traditional music (originally considered to be of the countryside and the working class), usually executed by a singer, accompanied by this bagpipe and percussion (a Bendir (or 2), and a Darbuka, sometimes by 2 Darbukas, or by a Tab(b)al [large drum]).

Usually made of the skin of a goat or a small gazelle, with the hair showing.

Mezued, Mezued


Sources

Collaer, Paul & Elsner, Jürgen: Nordafrika (Musikgeschichte in Bildern 1/8). Unter Mitarbeit von Brahim Bahloul, Charles Duvelle Helmut Hoffmann-Burchardi, Andrée Jabès, Angelika Jung, Vaclav Kubica, Sālih al-Mahdī, Nour-al-Din al-Salihi und Lothar Stein. Leipzig, 1983, p.98.