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Koniková dírka (f)

horse’s hole [?] ; ➺ remark(s) below

2nd pipe/tube of a triple chanter

Identical types: 2

The actual semidrone; NB: "Dírka" is a dialect form of "dierka", which is the diminutive of "diera", which translates as "hole" and "bore"; Elschek dubiously "explains" the term, however, as "the tube put in a horsehead", possibly in an attempt to evade the naughty pun referring to the fact that the thumbhole in this semidrone is, as a matter of course, located at the back of the chanter (the stock of which is usually carved in the shape of a horse’s head).

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Sources

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