Duìxiāo (-)
original: 对箫 (simplified; traditional: 對簫)
Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), no bell / idioglot single reeds: down-cut
Prov. Shāndōng; Double-clarinet composed of 2 春管 (Chūn guǎn [Spring pipe (?)]; Sachs, p.102b: Čuen kuan, [also] La pa (喇叭 [lábā] [incorrectly described as a shawm]); According to Marcuse (➺ Ch’un kuan) "the only single-reed instrument of China, nowadays [i.e. 1975; ws] a children’s toy").
Bamboo pipes of equal length (163 mm, Ø 20 mm); Down-cut idioglot reeds (details of instrument in Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Moule, Arthur C.: A list of the musical and other sound-producing instruments of the Chinese [Shanghai, 1908, Jl. of the north China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 39]. Preface by Harrison Ryker. Buren, 1989 [facsimile], p.96-97 (Chún Kuan, Tui Hsiao).