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Pútko (n)

loop

eye through which the waist strap of the bellows is drawn

Identical types: 2
Dymák

Wallachia; Eye through which the waist belt of the bellows is drawn, later sometimes replaced by a hook (Páka dolní); NB: ➺ Poutko (Bohemia).

Made of leather.

Sources

Ország-Vranecký, Joža: A měl jsem já písčalenku…: o lidových hudebních nástrojích, dětskích hříčkách a hrách na moravském Valašsku [And I had a small whistle…: about folk musical instruments, children’s plays on words, and games in Moravian Wallachia]. Ostrava, 1963, p.57.

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.362 (Slovakia).