Home Introduction About WS The bagpipe The launeddas Mouth organs
English French German Spanish
Countries
Thesaurus
Terminology
Hornpipes Launeddas Bladder pipes Bagpipes Mouth organs
Bagpipe parts Mouth organ parts
Persons Ensembles
All By Country
Books, &c. Dictionaries &c. Magazines & series Gramophone records Personal communication
All Museums (only) Festivals (only) Organisations (only) Websites only
Reviews, &c. Various
Contact

Pisek (m)

plural: Piskovi
reed(s)
Pisak

Dalmatia region (Kistanje; Potravlje; Vrlika; Žegar); Švica; Vrbnik; ➺ Pisak); Plural in Gojković erroneously interpreted as singular.

In Kistanje made of elder (Sambucus nigra), or "sijerak" (ševar [Ammophila arundinacea / A. arenaria ssp. Arundinacea]]; NB: Today [2022] considered extinct); In Švica made of "zovika" (zòvika [elder]); In Vrbnik of "rovoz" [= "rogoz" (cane)]; Phragmites australis).

Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.6/* (od rovoza), 137*, 138 (od zobike [sic] ili sijerka (ševara), 141 (od zovike), 158, 160.

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

Web

Hrvatska enciklopedija (ševar)
Skitanje (Enciklopedija lekovitih bilja..., p.396: zovika)
Ivana Džalto, »Fitonimija u Parčićevu Rječniku hrvatsko-talijanskome iz 1901. godine« (Diplomski rad [Master's thesis], Rijeka, 2021), p.243 (rogoz)