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Rožnjak (m)

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the little finger

No identical types known (yet).

Term, used by pipers [only?], probably named after the semidrone it "manipulates"; Eastern Slavonia; Srijem [Syrmia] region; NB¹: ➺ homonyms; NB²: ➺ Palac, Hitronja, Veliki and Krupni prst.


Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.305 (»Kuhač).

Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.46, 94.

ws (linguistics [➺ Dictionaries, &c.]).

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Archive.org (Kuhač).