Vrtnica (f)
plural: Vrtniceoriginal: (вртница, вртнице)
each of the tone producing holes of a chanter or semidrone
From "vrtati" [to bore / drill]; Location?
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.178, 195 (»Kuhač).
Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (»Širola [129]).
Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.46 (various grammatical forms: 2x: nom. / plural, gen. (pet [5] vrtnica) / plural (vrtnice) / 2x vrtnicah [Slovenian; plural, locative?]), 47 (plural, gen.), 52 [2x: plural, acc.], 92 (➺ ljuke), 94 (➺ rupice).
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