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Rokče (n)

(with) definite article: Rokčeto

original: рокче(то)

(the) small horn

lower (bent) part of chanter, also: knee-shaped tube, with chanter bell

Identical types: 9
Gajdarka

Bent extension of the chanter, with venthole; Dolneni: Ròkče; Selnik: Rokčè.

Traditionally made of buffalo horn, nowadays [i.e. late 20th century (after 1960); ws] usually of ox-horn.


Sources

Џимревски, Боривоје [Džimrevski, Borivoje]: Гајдата во Македонија: инструмент - инструменталист - музика ([The bagpipe in Macedonia]). Скопје [Skopje], 1996, p.76, 77, 103 [NOT in index!], 130.