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Clarinet-trumpet.

Technical description: A wind-cap clarinet with body imitating shape of an animal horn. Made of birch bark, wind-cap in shape of truncated cone (maximum length 110) also of coiled birch bark, detachable. Reed made of springy transparent plastic (perspex ?), held in place by coiling over the birch bark. The 'reed' is permanently bent at about 60º to cover narrow end of body of the 'horn' which is also made of coiled birch bark. A plaited birch bark band is looped around the narrow end of the body and attached to the bell with a forked and split twig.

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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.212.1-5
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:440; greatest 'diameter' of bell 103; smallest 'diameter' of bell 76.