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Ṭulūm dūdukī (-)

original: [طلوم دودكى ؟; Farmer: طلو دودكى]

skin pipe
Tulum / Tulūm

Probably the first reference to a bagpipe in a Turkish text, it is mentioned by Evliya Çelebi (1611-ca.1669), who states that the instrument was invented in Russia, and played by shepherds, adding that there were "Five players; Note the erroneous spelling (Tulum duduyi) in Marcuse and Podnos, both of whom refer, however, to Farmer as their source"; NB¹: Turkish "düdük" translates as "whistle, pipe, flute"; NB²: ➺ homonyms.


Sources

Picken, Laurence: Folk musical instruments of Turkey. London, 1975, p.547 (»Farmer).

Farmer, Henry George: Turkish instruments of music in the seventeenth century, I. In: Jl. Royal Asiatic Soc. of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1936), p.25.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Farmer [?]).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.32 (»Farmer [?]), 44.

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