Glossary: Balinger Sackpfeife

Among other things from his comprehensive research material Ernst Eugen Schmid has provided me with a drawing from the collection of J. W. Goethe showing a bagpipe player in the town of Reutlingen (ca. 1600). This picture inspired me to create a most faithful reproduction of this instrument for the “Haus der Volkskunst” (“house of folk art”) in Dürrwangen. Balinger Sackpfeife