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Alboka (-)

(with) definite article: ?
plural: ?; (with) definite article: Albokak
➺ remark(s) below

Hornpipe with a mouthpiece: yoke / double chanter (no drone), common bell / idioglot single reeds: either down- or up-cut

Identical types: 3

From Arabic البوق (al buq [horn/trumpet]); According to Justo Garate Arriola (1900-1994, [nicknames: "Eneko Mitxelena", "Elorregi", "Eneko Zilueta", and "Txeru Arriola"]), the plural form is sometimes used as a plurale tantum (i.e. as the name for the instrument); NB¹: ➺ France (Pays basque); NB²: ➺ Boha (hornpipe, Gascogne, France).

Cane pipes (Arundo donax), both 140 mm, tied and waxed in a wooden yoke; Cow-horn mouthpiece and (serrated) bell; Left: f¹-d² / Right: f¹-b♭¹.
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Albogue, Alboquea, Albuquea, Zinburruna [?]


Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.53-54, 62.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.127.

Barrenechea (Barrenetxea), (Jose) Mariano: Alboka: entorno folklórico (Colaboración de P. Jorge De Riezu), Bilbao, 1976, p.166 (»Gárrate: Albokak).