Askomandoura

Pictures show that the askomandoura was played in Crete as early as the 15th century.

It is a bagpipe, a wind instrument.

The Cretan askomandoura has a mandoura (the wooden chanter) with five holes on one pipe and five on the other. It is also common to make chanters where one pipe has five holes and the other only one, three or none at all.

Behind the chanter is the bag (askos, hence the name askomandoura), made from the skin of a young goat.