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Rotačka (f)

wheel [?]

device with which the rear end of the bag is closed

Identical types: 7
Mješina

Plug, around which the rear end of the bag is tied up before inserting the stocks, &c.; Dalmatia region (Kistanje (➺ Kolo); Žegar (➺ Velika rotačka)).

Ø ca. 80-100 mm; The margin of the open hind end is firmly tied - on the inside - into the groove in the edge of the (sometimes decorated) plug.


Sources

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

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.115, 139/*, 140/*, 160.

Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (2: »Bezić; »Širola [129]).