Janev, Velko
1842?-? [>1937]bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name
1937 still active; Lived in Skopje; In Đorđević (1926) he seems to be mentioned by a Serbian name (Janević/Janović [?]); He learned the profession from an itinerant tradesman, who practised several crafts, and finally settled in Skopje to focus on bagpipe making; Accomplished, Velko returned to his home village (Badev) and started his own workshop, but after his master’s death he went back to Skopje to continue the man’s trade; Also a piper, he was one of the (only) 3 Macedonian manufacturers (➺ Panče Janev, and Jovan Trajkoviḱ (Trajković) [Trajkoski?] ("Traka"), mentioned in Širola, who quotes that "bagpipe making is not a very old tradition in Skopje"; NB: According to Džimrevski, Velko was Panče's father, which is confirmed by the internet site (in which the Serbian form of his name - Veljko Janjević - is used), whereas Brömse (who spells his name Velko [sic] Janjević) states that he was his uncle, adding that they worked together in the same workshop.
Instrument: Gajda
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.231-232 [Janević], 274-275 [Janović].
Џимревски, Боривоје [Džimrevski, Borivoje]: Гајдата во Македонија: инструмент - инструменталист - музика ([The bagpipe in Macedonia]). Скопје [Skopje], 1996, p.113 (»Ѓорѓевиќ [Đorđević]).
Brömse, Peter: Flöten, Schalmeien und Sackpfeifen Südslawiens. Brünn [Brno], 1937, p.37, 54, 88 (Janjević).