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flute

Flute or pipes made from two pieces of bamboo tied together with twisted vegetable fibre. Bamboo sticks of similar size and shape, with two increasingly narrower tubes of bamboo inserted into the tops of the larger sticks. All bound together in five places. Large bamboo sticks with six holes notched into front of each.

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