The pilai is a type of Finnish bagpipe, described as "primitive", and as being similar to the Russian

volynka The volynka ( uk, волинка, коза, russian: волынка, crh, tulup zurna – see also duda, and koza) is a bagpipe. Its etymology comes from the region Volyn, Ukraine, where it was borrowed from Romania. The ''volynka'' is constr ...

. A 1796 texts describes it as "the last of the Russian wind instruments" but noted it "appertains properly to the Finns". The same text describes it as being made with a mouthpiece, two pipes, and an undressed goatskin. A traveler named Matthew Guthrie wrote in 1795 (cited by the organologist Anthony Baines):

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