Trumpet; kombu

Kombu or baari (large) kombu; kompu. End-blown C-shaped horn. Made of cast bronze in three sections, the proximal end with integral mouthpiece, the distal end with flared bell. The sections have cast tenons and sockets, made airtight with beeswax at the two joints. A metal eye has been cast above the bell from which a carrying string of black nylon string is tied and is looped at the opposite end round one of the three ridges on the tube below the flared mouthpiece. Made in Manapaddy, Peramangalam, Thrissur.