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The odrecillo was a small
bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...
of medieval
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(modern Spain and Portugal). The instrument is found with or without drones. The term is derived from the word ''odre'' ("goatskin"). This term has also been applied to a different instrument, the bladder pipe. File:Cantigas de Santa Maria, Musician's Codex, page 209R.jpg, 1280 A.D., Spain. Bladder pipes from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Musician's Codex.


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