The White Carniola Museum stores in its depot an intriguing diple chanter of local provenance with a tone hole arrangement that is not encountered anywhere else in the Balkans today. The following pictures depict an instrument made based on my measurements taken in the museum. I made the instrument in 2019.

The chanter is of the typical diple type, as encountered throughout the Northern Balkans. What’s special about it is the tone hole configuration, specifically the number and position of the tone holes on both bores. The holes are positioned in 6-5. There is no known or surviving playing style connected with this tone hole configuration. The technique of playing such an instrument satisfactorily is still to be discovered. Or invented, for that matter.

I’ve made the instrument from maple wood, with the stock crafted from plum wood. The reeds are arundo donax, which is pretty much standard these days.