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Kvaka (f)

door handle / latch

stock for the bellows

Identical types: 4
Dude

Stock for the bellows; Podravska [Drava] region (Kapela; Kozarevac); NB: ➺ homonyms.

Turned in 1 piece of wood, with an angle varying from 45 up to 90°; In Ždralovi inserted in the left front leg.

Grbača, Grbavica, Lula, Puvalo


Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.205 (»Čižmeković), 207 (»Horvat), 210.

Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (3: »Širola [129]).