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Kontra (-)

(with) definite article: a
counter

hole for the little finger of the lower hand

Identical types: 3
Játszólyuk

Fingerhole of the Kontrasíp, more or less at the same level as the Oldallyuk (venthole) of the Prím; Palóc (county Nógrád); NB: ➺ Bolhalyuk, Fölkiáltólyuk, Hangjátszólyuk, Kontraegyenlítőlyuk, Másodiklyuk, Sikajtólyuk, and Váltólyuk.

Kontrás, Váltó

Sources

Sárosi, Bálint: Die Volksmusikinstrumente Ungarns (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/1). Leipzig, s.a. [1967], p.87.

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