Duda
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The Duda is a Hungarian bagpipe : an instrument that uses air stored in a bag to sound different, pipes. Each of the three pipes fixed to the duda's bag has a single reed ; the folded pipe is a drone pipe, playing a continuous low note. The melody is picked out using fingerholes on the double chanter pipes. Of all bagpipes, the duda is especially distinctive because of its carved, wooden goat's head.
| Family |
| Woodwinds |
| Pitch range |
| The main chanter can usually play about one octave. |
| Material |
| Goatskin bag, wooden chanters and drone, with a cowhorn or metal extension to the drone. |
| Size |
| Variable. |
| Origins |
| The duda itself is from Hungary, but musicians from all over Eastern Europe have played bellows-blown and mouth-blown bagpipes for centuries. |
| Classification |
| Aerophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration of a column of air. |
| And also... |
| The highest fingerhole on the main chanter is very tiny, and has consequently gained the nickname "flea hole." |
