double reedpipe

Local name: pierdziel
Classification: 4 Aerophones / 42 Wind instruments proper / 422 Reedpipes / 422.1 Reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds (oboes) / 422.11 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds
Maker: Unknown
Date: first half of the 20th c.
Region: Greater Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: Musical Instrument Museum, department of the National Museum in Poznań
Inventory number: MNP I 285
Description: body made from a spirally rolled piece of willow bark, fastened with a thorn ("przetyczka")
Measurements: length 800 mm + reed 45 mm, diameter 90 mm
Materials: wood
Performance practice: a seasonal instrument made in the spring; would become porous and unplayable when it dried out; formerly a signal instrument (used by shepherds), often played by children, nowadays sometimes made as a music toy
Catalog card by: Janusz Jaskulski / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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