? [official name unknown]

Only known by his nickname, the literal translation of which reads "The piper from behind the mountain", He appeared in the first half of the 20th century in Żabnica and Hala Boracza [both S of Żywiec]; Józef Maślanka remembers from his childhood that "he was thus called by the mountaineers of Żabnica, because he came from the direction of Sopotnia [SE of Żywiec]. In the summer, when haymaking had ended, he came, sitting on a cart driven by Antek Błażecki, to "Skalka" [a district of Żabnica; ws]. With his music, the gajdziorz, still sitting on the cart, accompanied the villagers when they returned home after they had finished work at the hay"; [NB: Though it isn’t mentioned, I’m sure that they had a party with his music, that evening; ws]; Katarzyna & Maciej Szymonowiczowie write that "it is difficult to determine whether the gajdziorz actually came from Sopotnia Wielka, where there were already kapeli composed of a Dudy and a violin. It is more likely that he lived in one of the hamlets in the mountains that are part of the borderland between Żabnica and Sopotnia Wielka. Thanks to the information provided by Józef Maślanka, we learn that the Gajdy covered the areas located east of Żabnica, through the hamlet of Płone, up to the border with Sopotnia Wielka".