The whistle flute - jedinka
surrondings of Zagreb, the 1st half of the 20th century
wood
cutting, knifework, drilling, ignition, carving
length = 32,6 cm
diameter = 2,3 cm
distance from the side to the bottom of the instrument = 29,8 cm
distance from the side to the first finger-hole = 12 cm
distance between the finger-holes = 1,3 do 1,6 cm
Soundtrack: Stjepan Večković, playing the described instrument from the museum collection
Et 20549
The Collection of Musical Instruments
The whistle flute jedinka, a single labial flute, crafted from one piece of thickly cut and drilled wooden stick. The whistle flute has six finger-holes. The burnt ornament is shaped as a zig-zag line. It is burnt near the holes on the upper section, and on the side a handwritten note says: “Remete 11/1198”. The flute is chipped on the outside so that its cross-section is rounded but square. The ornament is burnt.
The whistle flute jedinka was made and used in Zagreb, Remete. In 1966 it was donated to Vladimir Tkalčić, the then curator at the Ethnographic Museum.
