On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 at 09:06, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:

(Tangentially, I'd always been struck by the resemblance of the musical instrument chuS'ugh to Chusuk, the so-called "Music Planet" in Frank Herbert's Dune. It seems to be little more than a striking coincidence, though; the chuS'ugh appears to have been coined by Howard Weinstein for the TNG novel Power Hungry in '89, probably from chuS + 'ugh, and retrospectively canonised in the TKD Addendum. FWIW, in Power Hungry the chuS'ugh is described as a four-stringed instrument, pear-shaped, about two feet high, and played with a bow while it rests on the knee. Perhaps the cello is the nearest European classical equivalent.)


The "Star Trek Fact Files" magazine no. 89 claims the following:
https://archive.org/stream/StarTrekFactFilesNo89/Star%20Trek%20Fact%20Files%20No%2089_djvu.txt
"Klingon opera is often accompanied by the bagpipe-like musical instrument known as a chuS'ugh."

So... a bagpipe which is played with a bow? Interesting.

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