Żywiec bagpipes

Local name: dudy, 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: Maślanka Józef
Date: 1983
Village / Town: Żabnica
Region: the Carpathian region (Beskid Żywiecki)
Country: Poland
Owner: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle, Department of Ethnography
Inventory number: MŻ-E/1971
Description: mouth-blown instrument made of cylindrical, single-reed pipes: a chanter (6+1 fingerholes) and a drone, both ending in conical, arched, two-part bells; bag made of a whole skin, the white fur on the outside
Decoration: profiled pipes and mouthpiece, embellished with metal inlays (geometrical motifs, partly openwork); metal elements of the bells embossed, their openings fitted with openwork covers-dampers; connector between the chanter and the bag in a zoomorphic shape (naturalistic goat's head); similar connector between the drone and the bag
Measurements: 530 x 890 mm
Materials: wood (plum, elderberry), goat skin, cattle horn, metal (tin, brass)
Sound compass, tuning: F: c¹ – es¹ – f¹ – g¹ – a¹ – h¹ – c² – d²
Performance practice: key component of traditional folk bands in southern parts of the Żywiec area (Beskid Żywiecki)
Catalog card by: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec / Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski


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