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Gajdica s troma dírkami (f)

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"Dírka is a dialect form of "dierka", which is the diminutive of "diera", which translates as "hole" and "bore"; Thus the literal translation is "chanter with 3 bores" (i.e. "triple chanter"); NB: ➺ homonyms.


Sources

Elschek, Oskár: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 2 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;2 [Slowakei]). Leipzig, 1983, p.226.

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