Duda (musical instrument)
Duda ( Russian Дуда ) refers to several types of bagpipes in Belarus , Russia , Ukraine , Hungary , Poland and Croatia .
The duda has a melody tube with six or seven finger holes and two, rarely three drone pipes , all of which are equipped with single reeds.
According to archaeological finds, the bagpipe was in northern Belarus from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century in use. It gradually disappeared in the middle of the 20th century. Today the duda is being revived as part of European folk music festivals.
The word duda goes back to the Old Church Slavonic root dud ("to blow") and is related to dudka , a beaked flute in the three countries mentioned, with dudy for several bagpipes in Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Croatia and with wind instruments in non-Slavic languages such as duduk (Armenian double reed instrument) and tutek (Central Asian flutes). In Hungary duda was the name of the now obsolete wooden trumpet fakurt .
literature
- Inna D. Nazina: Duda. In: Laurence Libin (Ed.): The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Vol. 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2014, p. 99
Web links
- Дуда. melma.ru/myzykalnye-instrumenty/ethnic_music_instr/231-duda (Russian)