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Otvor (m)

opening

opening (for the valve) in the cheek of the bellows

No identical types known (yet).
Mijeh

Hole in the lower cheek of the bellows, with a non-return inlet-valve on the inside; On the outside fitted with a "fence" protecting the piper’s clothes; Ždralovi.

Sources

Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.203 (»Križan).