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Bagpipe; duda

Duda, bagpipe, with leather bag (2009.2.1), spare patch of leather (2009.2.2), 'huk' - bass drone (2009.2.3), tenor drone (2009.2.4), 'parabor' - chanter (2009.2.5), 'soska' - blowpipe (2009.2.6), and wooden stopper in the form of a blowpipe to stop tenor drone stock when not in use (2009.2.7). The chanter and two drones each have a single percussive reed consisting of a rectangular piece of beige plastic tied to the open side of a metal tube at the end of the tenon. The chanter is cylindrical with seven finger holes and one thumb hole. The uppermost finger hole is doubled and all are slightly recessed. The sounding pipes are made of a light coloured wood, probably maple, and each has an upturned bell 'rahaven' made from two pieces of darker wood (possibly birch) at the distal end. The drones are each formed of two joints with the connecting tenon on the upper joint. The blowpipe and tenor drone stopper have a valve formed of a circle of leather covering their lower rims and attached by a nail to the rim. Four stocks of turned and varnished wood. There is a shoulder strap of longitudinally striped ribbon and there are tassels hanging from each stock. The bag is of tanned leather in a symmetrical shape with curving sleeves at either end. The edge seam is stitched with a dark red cord. The sleeve of the stock above the chanter has applied decoration in wool and wire of the horns and eyes of a goat's head.