mezwed (Tunisian and Algerian bagpipe)

~ Wind instrument

Description

Not to be confused with the Libyan shawm also known as zukra or zurna.
Not to be confused with mijwiz or the similar zummara.

Also do not confuse with "mizmar" a general Arabian term for several reed instruments, players of the same as well as a dance.

Used in traditional music together with drums, it has a small bag made of ewe or goat and double chanters with bells made of cowhorn.

Relationships

from:Algeria
Tunisia
type of:bagpipe
picture:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/mezwed/mezwed.png [info]
Wikidata:Q123526 [info]
information page:http://web.archive.org/web/20220526073332/http://www.hotpipes.com/pipe0026.html [info]
other databases:https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/musical_instrument/gakki_jiten_mizwad.html [info]