{{short description|Woodwind musical instrument}} {{About|the musical instrument|textual symbol|Diple (textual symbol)}} {{refimprove|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox Instrument |name=Diple |names= |image= Sviranje dipli.JPG |classification= *Bagpiping |range= |related= *Bock (Czech) *Cimpoi (Romanian) *Duda (Hungarian/Polish) *Koza (Polish) *Gaida (South Eastern Europe) (the Balkans) *Tulum (Turkish and Pontic) *Tsambouna (Dodecanese and Cyclades) *Askomandoura (Crete) *Gajdy (Polish/Czech/Slovak) *Gaita (Galician) *Surle (Croatian) *Mezoued/Zukra (Northern Africa) * Guda, tulum (Laz people) * Dankiyo, zimpona (Pontic) * Parakapzuk (Armenia) * Gudastviri (Georgia) * Tsimboni (Georgia) (Adjara) * Shuvyr (Circassians) * Sahbr, Shapar (Chuvashia) * Tulug (Azerbaijan) * Volynka ({{langx|uk|Волинка}}), ({{langx|ru|Волынка}}) (Ukraine, Russia) }} '''Diple''' (''pluralia tantum''; pronounced {{IPA|sh|dîple̞|}}, from Greek {{lang|grc|δῐπλόος}} {{lit|double, two-fold}}),<ref>{{cite web | title=dȉple | website=Hrvatski jezični portal | url=https://hjp.znanje.hr/index.php?show=search_by_id&id=f1diURA%3D&keyword=diple | language=hr | access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> also known as '''misnjiče''', '''miješnice''' and '''mih''',<ref name="baines">{{cite book |last1=Baines |first1=Anthony |title=Bagpipes |date=1979 |publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum |location=United Kingdom |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6MIAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> is a traditional woodwind musical instrument originating in the Adriatic Littoral. It is played in Bosnia and Herzegovina,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Talam|first=Jasmina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69MxBwAAQBAJ&q=Folk+Musical+Instruments+in+Bosnia+and+Herzegovina|title=Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina|date=2014-07-18|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6427-5|language=en}}</ref> Croatia,<ref name="Encyclopedia">{{cite book |last1=Porter |first1=James |last2=Goertzen |first2=Chris |title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Europe |date=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=United Kingdom |isbn=9781351544269 |pages=915, 928, 959–960, 966 |edition=8}}</ref> Slovenia,<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> Montenegro,<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> and Serbia.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Marković|first=Zagorka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7i44AAAAMAAJ&q=Narodni+muzi%C4%8Dki+instrumenti|title=Narodni muzički instrumenti|date=1987|publisher=Etnografski muzej|page=75|language=sr}}</ref>
==The flute== The diple are a reedpipe instrument that incorporates two bores within one body, and thus creates two notes simultaneously.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Puhačka glazbala – Hrvatska tradicijska glazbala |url=https://gajde.com/puhacka-glazbala/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |language=hr}}</ref> Generally, the left hand fingers a group of holes on the left side of the body, and the right on its side.
==Droneless bagpipes== All bagpipe diple have a double chanter with two separate single reeds, which originated in the coastal areas of Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro with various difference.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7i44AAAAMAAJ|title=Narodni muzički instrumenti|first=Zagorka|last=Marković|date=21 April 1987|page=75|publisher=Etnografski muzej|access-date=21 April 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref> The bag of the bagpipes is called a ''mih/mêh/mijeh/mješina'', which consists of a tanned goat skin, the blowpipe is a ''dulac'' or ''gajdenica'', through which the air is blown, which is in fact a double chanter used to play the melody and harmony simultaneously. The chanter incorporates two single reeds, one in each bore. The mijeh or diple is played from Istria in the north, down through Lika, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and ending in Montenegro.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Marijana Dlačić|author2=Hrvoje Badurina|title=Tajna melodija ovčje kože|date=2012|url=http://muzejovcarstva.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/MIH.pdf|pages=17–18|website=Muzejovcarstva.org}}</ref><ref name="baines" />
Unlike the majority of European bagpipes, the ''meh'' has no drone (''trubanj'', ''prdalo'', ''prdaljka''), instead playing both a melody and harmony part on the chanter. Though their general form is similar, the ''meh'' in different parts of Bosnia varies in chanter tunings, ornamentation, and other small factors. The ''meh'' is an untempered instrument, and its specific intonation varies by region.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.gajde.com Centar za tradicijska glazbala Hrvatske]
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