The sourdeline is a bellows-blown

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, Nor ...

played in France in the 17th century. It was believed to have been of Italian origin, developed in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and known as the surdelina. Victoria and Albert Museum,

Carl Engel Carl Engel (July 21, 1883 – May 6, 1944) was a France, French-born United States, American pianist, composer, musicologist and publisher from Paris. He was also president of G. Schirmer, Inc., a writer on music for The Musical Quarterly, a ...

. 'A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington museum'' Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall, 1874

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