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Säkkipilli (-)

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Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])

Identical types: 55

From "säkki" [bag] + "pilli" [whistle]; Also used as a generic term for all kinds of bagpipes, Finnish or otherwise; NB¹: Instead of referring to its entry (in Scots Gaelic [!]) on the Great Hieland Bagpipe [which it calls a "stub", oddly asking for "help to expand it" (State: Oct. 2025 !)], Wikipedia unnecessarily mainly provides information about that instrument (moreover including - rather enigmatically - an illustration of "The Bagpiper" by the 17th century Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen), before paying rather limited attention to the bagpipes in the Nordic countries (➺ "Säkkipilli Pohjoismaissa"), NB²: Moreover, the b/w photo, taken in 1912 [?], by A.O. Väisänen during his trip to Setumaa, shows Estonian piper Atro Tõnu [?-?; No biographical details detected (yet)] with his Torupill !!!; NB³: Confusion regarding the year in which the photo was taken, is explained on the Finna.fi website.

Pilai, Pilli, Pillit säkki[hinsä?], Rackopilli, Säcki pilli


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile], p.329a.

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.351/(*) (»Sirelius), 374.

Web

Wikipedia (Säkkipilli).
Wikipedia (Bagpipe).
Finna.fi (Atro Tonu) [➺.Merkinnät [Notes] / Valmistus [Manufacture/Preparation].
Estonian Museums Web Portal (Kolga beach, Virve, Atro Tõnu plays the bagpipes).