Bag - mješnice
Josip Delaš
Zelovo, 1999
wood, sheep leather
trimming, sawing, engraving, dressing, burning
length of the diple = 24,5 cm
length of the stock = 8 cm
length of the blowpipe = 18 cm
distance from the top of the chanter to the first finger-hole = 5,5 cm
Soundtrack: Stjepan Večković playing the described instrument from the museum collection
Et 29258
The Collection of Musical Instruments
The chanter is tied to the bag at the neck hole. The double flute consists of a conically shaped stock and a twin-bore monoxyle chanter with the holes arranged 7:3. There are two reeds with a tongue within the stock. The stock and the chanter are ornamented in small triangles and interlace on the front side and the back side.
sekundarna/fonoteka/2017/az-23_diple_s_mijehom_(zelovo)/3 - diple s mjehom (zelovo) - 29258.mp3
The front leg holes are closed with two wooden hooks which imitate boar teeth. The blowpipe is inserted into the thorax hole. The part of blowpipe which is closer to the bag is carved to form five separate surfaces and decorated with engraved triangles and interlace. One hide leg is closed by tying on the inside, and the back opening is covered with a round wooden plate with a twin six-pointed rosetta is carved with the points filled with lines. The mješnice was made by Josip Delaš, a skilled instrument maker from Zelovo in 1999.
