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Spike tube fiddle / side-blown flute.

Technical description: 2 strings; one string of gut; tube resonator with snake skin sound-table glued on; string attachment made from a simple wire hook hooked on to base of tube (neck does not pierce lower end of body); neck of bamboo with seven holes of varying size set along underside; cork bung set inside tube just above lower tuning peg; this instrument can be used as a flute by using the lower peg hole as a mouth hole and covering its lower opening.

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