The sac de gemecs (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsaɡ də ʒəˈmeks]; literally "bag of moans", also known as buna [ˈbuna] in Andorra or coixinera [kuʃiˈneɾə], gaita [ˈɡajtə] or botella [buˈteʎə]) is a type of bagpipes found in Catalonia (eastern Spain spilling over into southern France).

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. The high drone (bordó petit) plays an octave below the chanter, thus one octave above the bass drone.

Folklore

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.

See also

  • Xeremia
  • Gaita

References

External links

  • Elsacdegemecs.com
  • Cornamusam at olot.org
  • Cornamusica.com
  • XGBosch Cornamuses Archived 2018-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
  • Elsacdegemecs.blogspot



El sac de gemecs Sonadors de sac de gemecs. S. XIX i XX (IV)

Sac de gemecs (Apel·les Mestres) CAT CEDOC 1.09.13 Stock Photo Alamy

El sac de gemecs Melodies per a sac de gemecs (I)

El sac de gemecs Sonadors de sac de gemecs. S. XIX i XX (VII)

El sac de gemecs Presència del sac de gemecs en la iconografia