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Duct flute
Duct flute. A cylindrical bamboo pipe with an opened node at the distal end. Wooden block, its upper face flush with the proximal rim. Seven round, approximately equidistant finger holes and one thumb hole.
- Date:
before 1903 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Maldive Islands - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.221.2 Partly-stopped flutes with internal duct
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- Materials:bamboo
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.221.2 Partly-stopped flutes with internal duct
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 18.3071 x x 1.6535 in.; 465 x 42 mm