Čižmeković, Jozo
1864?-? [>1937]piper (&c.) mentioned by name
1937: [retired?]; Lived in Kapela (born in Paulin Kloštar [?]); He started to play as a 14 year old boy and already played, when 16, at weddings (which usually lasted 3-4 days; Rich people, however, could afford to have weddings from Sunday to Sunday), having performed at more than 500 of them (against a fee of 5 to 6 forint [today’s rate?; ws] each, paid by the host, father of the bridegroom) and on many other occasions; His Dude, with its exceptionally constructed triple chanter, is described by Širola; Brömse, according to whom he was also a bagpipe maker, adds a description of "a Dude from Kapela near Bjelovar" in the Ethnographic Museum in Agram [i.e. Zagreb] (inv. no. 10003), made by him; Širola, however, claims that he had the wooden parts of his instrument(s) made by Stevo [?] Udžbinac.
Instrument: Dude
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.204-205, 242-246 (passim), 259, 267-269, 310-311.
Brömse, Peter: Flöten, Schalmeien und Sackpfeifen Südslawiens. Brünn [Brno], 1937, p.95 (Joza Čižmeković).