Sac de gemecs
The sac de gemecs (ˈsaɡ də ʒəˈmeks; literally "bag of moans", also known as buna ˈbuna in Andorra or coixinera, gaita or botella) is a type of bagpipes found in Catalonia (eastern Spain spilling over into southern France). • Illustration — Sac de gemecs, at the Museu de la Música de Barcelona • Illustration — Traditional Catalan folksong and sac de gemecs melody from an 1822 manuscript The instrument consists of a chanter, a mouthblown blowpipe, and three drones. The lowest drone (bordó llarg) plays a note two octaves below the tonic of the chanter. The middle drone (bordó mitjà) plays a fifth above the bass.
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The high drone (bordó petit) plays an octave below the chanter, thus one octave above the bass drone.
The instrument figures into the Andorran legend El buner d'Ordino, in which a bagpiper from the parish of Ordino, en route to a festival in Canillo, is chased and treed by wolves, but frightens them off by playing his buna.
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