bagpipe

Local name: gajdy
Classification: 4 Aerophones / 42 Wind instruments proper / 422 Reedpipes / 422.2 Reedpipes with single reeds (clarinets) / 422.21 Individual reedpipes with single reeds / 422.211 With cylindrical bore / 422.211.2 With fingerholes / 422.211.2 + 422.211-62 Single-reed chanter with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes + single-reed drone with cylindrical bore, flexible air reservoir for all pipes
Maker: Unknown
Date: beginning of the 20th c.
Village / Town: Istebna
Region: Carpathian area (Beskid Śląski)
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MLIM/MS/936
Description: an instrument with bellows; cylindrical pipes: a chanter (fingerholes 6+1) and a double bend drone, both ending in conical, arched horn-metal bells; bag made of a goat's whole skin with hair on the inside; assembled from parts and preserved by Feliks Jankowski from Żywiec in 1985
Decoration: pipes embellished with turning profiles with metal rings; geometrical patterns embossed on the metal parts of the bells
Measurements: chanter 339 mm, drone 959 mm, bag 455 mm
Materials: wood, leather, metal, horn
Sound compass, tuning: E♭: b♭ – e♭' – f' – g' – a♭' – b♭' – c''
Performance practice: traditional component of Beskid Śląski (Silesian Beskid) folk bands
Catalog card by: Maria Jost / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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