odrecillo

{{Short description|Medieval Iberian small bagpipe}}

File:Cantiga bagpipes 2.jpg, showing small droneless bagpipes, labeled in some sources as "odrecillo".]]

The odrecillo was a small bagpipe of medieval Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal). The instrument is found with or without drones.{{cite book|author=E. Michael Gerli|title=Medieval Iberia: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ra9BtjLRNMsC&pg=PA69|access-date=10 April 2011|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93918-8|pages=69–}}

The term is derived from the word odre ("goatskin").{{cite book|author=Theodor H. Podnos|title=Bagpipes and tunings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LM0XAQAAIAAJ|access-date=10 April 2011|year=1974|publisher=Information Coordinators|page=47}} This term has also been applied to a different instrument, the bladder pipe.

File:Cantigas de Santa Maria, Musician's Codex, page 209R.jpg|1280 A.D., Spain. Bladder pipes from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Musician's Codex.

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