“Longing, sadness“
satu’ Plamna, Sârbiĭe
Jovan Paunović, gajde
Plavna, Srbija
• The small bagpipe
The carabă is similar to the Romanian cimpoi. It is a quite small instrument with a single drone, which is attached horizontally on the side of the bagpipe player. The player here was (we presume he is now deceased) one of the best in the region, Jovan Paunovic,from the Vlach village of Plavna. His repertoire included more than forty melodies, for