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Panpipes; rondador

Rondador, panpipes. 37 bamboo pipes, arranged as a flat raft with the upper rims aligned. The lengths of the pipes are graduated from the longest at the player's right to the shortest at the left, and are in two alternating sequences, with some variations in the longest six pipes. The over all lengths of the pipes do not determine their pitches, as each is stopped by a node at a different depth into the pipe. The pipes are held by two pairs of cane strips. Vegetable fibre string is wrapped round each pair through the gaps between the adjacent pipes.

  • Culture:Quito
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  • Materials:FI, vegetable fibre, bamboo
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:421.112.2 Stopped panpipes
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
  • Measurements:overall: 455 x 335 x 25 mm