The jedinka is a small Croatia

Croatia

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n whistle flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

, usually highly carved and decorated. Often carved from maple

Maple

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 or chestnut

Chestnut

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 wood, the jedinka is a single tube with a whistle-like mouthpiece and six equally spaced finger holes. These small, simple instruments were used mainly by shepherd

Shepherd

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s, who played them individually in the fields.

"Jedinka" or "zveglica" is single flute made mostly of walnet tree or elder. Although we can use the other kind of trees, for example a plum or maple tree or cherry. "Jedinka" has six holes for pickering. The name “frula” in Hrvatsko Zagorje for this instrument has been never used. One interested characteristic for single fluts from Hrvatsko Zagorje is quarter section differently from all others modes similarly flutes which are regularly rounded in section. "Jedinka" has very tender and elegical tone.

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See also

• List of European folk music traditions
• Ney
  Ney
  The ney is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. It is a very ancient instrument, with depictions of ney players appearing in wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and actual neys being found...
  
  
• Duduk
  Duduk
  The duduk , traditionally known since antiquity as a Ծիրանափող is a traditional woodwind instrument indigenous to Armenia. Variations of it are popular in the Middle East and Central Asia...
  
  
• Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Frula
  Frula
  A frula is the Serbian name for a musical instrument which resembles a small recorder or flute. It is an end-blown aerophone. Similar instruments are played throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans...
  
  
• Dilli Kaval
  Dilli Kaval
  The dilli kaval is a traditional end blown flute from Turkey, Azerbaijan. They are typically made of plum, ebony, or apricot wood. The soprano dilli kaval in C and the alto version in A are hand-made. Both types were patented by Burhan Tarlabaşı...
  
  
• Shvi
  Shvi
  The shvi which means "whistle" in Armenian, is a fipple flute with a labium mouth piece. Commonly made of wood or bamboo) and up to 12 inches in length, it typically has a range of an octave and a-half...
  
  
• Kaval
  Kaval
  The kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, southern Serbia , northern Greece , Romania , and Armenia...