The Maltese Bagpipe - Iż-Żaqq

The Maltese bagpipe is made from a whole animal skin with fur side up.

A two-piped chanter having five fingerholes on the left and one on the right is inserted into the neck end of the skin and terminates in one animal horn. The żaqq is inflated through a blow pipe inserted into one of the forelegs. The instrument would normally be held beneath the arm with legs pointing upwards and would be accompanied by a single-headed frame drum, known as a tanbur. Bagpipers and tanbur players always performed in the streets in the days leading up to Christmas.

For further details see: 
‘Making the Maltese żaqq bag’ Chanter, Journal of the Bagpipe Society, UK. (Winter 2005): 22-28.
and Daqq, Għana u Żfin Malti. (Malta: PEG Ltd. 2007).

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