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Voščarnica (f)

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place / receptacle (on the instrument) used to store the spare supply of beeswax used for tuning

Identical types: 2

From "vosak" [(bees) wax]; Receptacle for spare supply of beeswax used for tuning, &c., actually being the wide groove between two shoulders on the 3rd (upper) piece of the drone; Kapela; Erroneous location (in the stock) and spelling (Vošćarnica) in Gojković.


Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.200, 205 (»Čižmeković), 210.

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