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description: Morphology: Bagpipe Location: Saudi Arabia Culture: Arab Description: This bagpipe-like instrument is known as the mišnice or mjeršnice. It is made of goatskin or the skin of other domesticated animals. They have been known to exist in Europe since the 9th Century. They are a common instrument in traditional Croatian(comma) Serbian(comma) Hungarian and Ukrainian music. It is played by blowing into one pipe to fill the chamber while changing the melody by covering and uncovering holes on another pipe and releasing air from the chamber.