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Mih (m)

bellows / wineskin / goatskin
Mješnica

Hrvatsko Primorje region; Istria (Žminj); Kvarner islands (Cres; Krk (Baška; Poljica; Stara Baška) and Vrbnik (➺ Mišnjice); NB¹: ➺ Meh [synonym of Mješnica]); Lošinj; Molat; Susak); Male Dražice; According to Marušić/Tombesi the name used by the Croats of Istria for the bagipe with "united" chanters (NB²: ➺ synonyms: Mih na mišnice, and Mihur; NB³: ➺ Šurle); Podnos, obviously being unfamiliar with the Serbo-Croatian language, ignorantly calls this "an abbreviated name"; NB4: ➺ homonyms.


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.26, 170.

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.19, 116, 129, 292.

Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (»Bezić; »Fajdetić [24]).

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.127.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.33 (»Baines), 47.