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Willow-bark flute.
Technical description: Body of flute made from plastic tube overwound with birch bark; duct made by inserting wooden plug in one end and creating a mouth-hole near the end of the tube and a window c40mm lower down. Extension of wooden plug (102mm) decorated with burned and incised patterns; leather hanging-strap attached to top end of plug.
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1989 - Maker:
Storbekken, Egil - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Norway - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.221.11 Open flutes with internal duct without fingerholes
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.221.11 Open flutes with internal duct without fingerholes
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:719
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15803