Diple: Croatia musical instrument

The diple are a traditional woodwind musical instrument that is found in Croatian Montenegrin and Serbian music.

source: hrvatskifolklor.net

The musical instrument may be found as a fipple flute or as a reed pipe, but in either is different in that it incorporates two holes bored within one body, and as such produces two notes at the same time. Generally, the left hand of the player fingers a group of holes on the left side of the instrument’s body and the right hand of the player does the same at the right side of the instrument’s body.

Bagpipes also exist that make use of a reeded diple as a chanter. Also called mih, mjeh, diple with wine skin or just diple, the instrument is performed in Istria and Lika from the Dalmatia Island and coast of Herzegovina. The mih is made up of tanned skin of a sheep or goat, blowpipe through which the air is blown into the instrument and a diple on which the melody and harmony are performed at the same time.

Unlike many European bagpipe instruments, the mih has no drone, rather performing both a melody and harmony part of the chanter. Though their common form is analogous, mih in various parts of Croatia, differ in chanter tunings, decorations and some other factors. The musical instrument is an un-tempered musical instrument and its specific timbre differs by regions.