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bamboo pipe

Musical pipe, made of bamboo, in two parts, each bound with string at one end. The shorter wider part has three widely spaced large holes and one end is blocked in (or possibly never opened up). The longer part has six smaller holes in two sets of three at the front, and two holes at the back.

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