The double whistle
Simo Vuković
Bizovac, Valpovo, the middle of the 19th century
wood (maple)
trimming, drilling, sawing
length = 36,50 cm
width of the upper section = 2,80 cm
width of the lower section = 6,80 cm
length from the side to the bottom of the instrument = 33,3 cm
distance from the side to the first finger-hole = 19,2 cm
distance between the finger-holes = 2 cm
POH-462/1920
The Collection of Musical instruments by Franjo Ksaver Kuhač
The double whistle is an aerophone made of one piece of ash, beech or oak wood. After a square piece of wood is cut, two air pipes are bored along it with a drill. One pipe has four bored playing holes, and the other three. The instrument is tuned to B.
The instrument was made and given as a gift to Kuhač by Simo Vuković from Bizovac, Slavonija, for whom Kuhač noted was a very skilled musician who played so it seemed like “three musicians are playing at once” (Kuhač 1878:1).
Inscribed on the double whistle is:
“the double whistle from Bizovac Slovenija Simo Vuković”
