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Čep (m)

plug/stopper

special plug used to stop [silence] the drone

Identical types: 6
Prda

Plug, dangling from the upper piece of the drone; Used to stop [silence] it when tuning the chanter; Eastern Slavonia (Andrijevci; Prkovci Stari); NB: ➺ homonyms.

Made of wood.

Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.183 (»Ćipuzović), 241.

Brömse, Peter: Flöten, Schalmeien und Sackpfeifen Südslawiens. Brünn [Brno], 1937, p.92.