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Prdak (m)

original: прдак

➺ remark(s) below

only drone, adjustable: details?

Identical types: 9
Gajda

From прднути (pr̀dnuti [to fart]) ?; Central Serbia; Svrljig; NB: ➺ homonyms, &c.

Pitch: G; Retrograde; The drone of a Karabe is, however, held laterally, pointing forward; The Vunija has an extended drone, ending in a ca. 200 mm long funnel-shaped brim, called the вунија (vùnija), after which the entire instrument is named.
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Brčalo, Prdaljka, Prdalo, Rog, Rudalo, Rukalo

Čaška


Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.118, 124 (»Ðorđević), 164.

Brömse, Peter: Flöten, Schalmeien und Sackpfeifen Südslawiens. Brünn [Brno], 1937, p.83.

Gojković, Andrijana: Narodni muzički instrumenti [Folk musical instruments]. Beograd, 1979 (1: »Širola [129]).

Jakovljević, Rastko Stevan: Marginality and cultural identities: Locating the bagpipe music of Serbia. Durham, 2012, p.286 (Pitch [➺ Prdaljka]).