bagpipe (bladder pipe)

Local name: siesieńki, sierszeńki, sieszynki, sieszynie, sierszynki, sierszynie, pancharzyna
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 / 422.211.2-62 Single-reed chanter with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes, flexible air reservoir Single-reed chanter with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes, flexible air reservoir
Maker: Domagała Franciszek
Date: 1971
Village / Town: Zbąszyń
Region: Greater Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MLIM/MS/1579
Description: a single voice bagpipe; blown through a mouthpiece; double bag made from an animal bladder; single reed; cylindrical chanter with eight fingerholes, one underneath; one tuning hole near the lightly bent conical bell
Measurements: chanter 292 mm, mouthpiece 203 mm
Materials: wood, cane, bladder, horn, metal, cloth
Sound compass, tuning: formerly not established, after World War II in west Greater Poland the instrument was supplied with a chanter from the white goat tuned in E-flat and with a diatonic scale b♭ – c' – d' – e♭' – f' – g' – a♭' – b♭' – c''
Performance practice: a shepherd’s instrument, used at the first stage of learning how to play the bagpipe; reactivated after World War II for didactical purposes in the S. Moniuszko Music School in Zbąszyń, partly used by artists of the folk revival, too
Catalog card by: Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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