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End-blown flute; washint
Washint, end-blown flute. A bamboo pipe with two nodes. Both nodes have been opened, but each still constricts the bore. Both ends of the pipe are open and four small, circular finger holes are positioned along the front surface between the nodes. Like other examples of the washint, this instrument probably plays a pentatonic scale
- Date:
circa 1965 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Shewa, Ethiopia - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:421.111.12 Open single end-blown flutes with fingerholes
- Culture:Amhara
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- Materials:bamboo
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- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.111.12 Open single end-blown flutes with fingerholes
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 397 x 20 mm