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Páka dolní (f)

lower lever

hook, &c. at the lower end of the bellows, to be shoved behind the waist strap

Identical types: 3
Dymák

Wallachia; Hook at the lower end of the bellows, to be shoved behind the waist belt; If applied, it replaces the traditional leather loop (Pútko) seen on late 19th and 20th century instruments.

Generally made of wood.


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.55-61.

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