Mezued (m)
(with) definite article: ?original: مِزود
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 1 stock (double chanter) / no drones
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.
Chkara, Mesúd, Mezonad, Mezoued, Mezūd, Mezwid / Mez wid, Mizoued, Mizwad / Mizwid, Shkewa, Shkeywa, Souqqarah, Sūqqara, Zouqqarah, Zûggara, Zūkra, Zummāra el-kurbe, Zūqqara
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.