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Dude (f) (plurale tantum)

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

Identical types: 34

Stari Trg (Bela Krajina [White Carniola] region), 1937; The last instruments were encountered, in the 1950s, in the Brkini region (central town: Ilirska Bistrica); They were mostly brought by Istrian shepherds; NB¹: = Bishnicë (Albania), Diple [a] (Bosnia & Hercegovina) and [b] (Montenegro), Mishnicë (Kosovo), and Mješnica (Croatia); NB²: ➺ Piva (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy); NB³: ➺ Dude in other countries.

If played without the bag, the stock serves as a yoke.

Diple z mehom, Diplenjak, Duda, Hrvaška dudla, Meshin, Mešnice, Mišnice, Vidalice

Pihalo, Pisk

Dude


Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.345-347.

Kumer, Zmaga: Die Volksmusikinstrumente in Slowenien (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/5). Ljubljana, 1986, p.37.