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PLATERSPIEL, BLATERPFEIFE , a medieval simplified bagpipe, consisting of an insufflation tube, a bladder and a chaunter; the dcuble reed in its socket at the top of the chaunter being concealed within the bladder. In the platerspiel we recognize the early medieval chorus, a word which in medieval Latin was frequently used also for the bagpipe. In the earlier forms of platerspiels of which we possess illustrations, such as the well-known example of the 13th century reproduced by Martin Gerbert
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century Spanish MS., known as theCantigas de Santa Maria' in the Escurial, together with a platerspiel having two pipes, a chaunter and a drone side by side. Another is figured by Virdung (1511). There was practically no technical difference between the bent platerspiel and the cromorne
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