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Laktača (f)

original: лактача

➺ remark(s) below

mechanical device used to supply the bag with air

Identical types: 27
Banatske gajde

From "lakat" (làkat [elbow]) ?; Bellows (Term used by the gajdaši (pipers)); Banat region; NB¹: ➺ My remarks to Člen; NB²: ➺ Croatia.

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Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.308.

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

Вукосављевић, Петар Д. (Vukosavljević, Petar D.): Гајде у Србији – њихова сазвучја и могућност уклапања у савремени народни оркестар = Bag – and – drone pipes in Serbia: their chording and compatibility with a modern folk music orchestra. Београд (Beograd), 1979, p.46, 48 (»Mirko Francuski, Kikinda).

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