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Khaen gao (-)

With 18 pipes; According to Blench it "has virtually disappeared. Playing such an instrument was extremely taxing, because of the wind-pressure players had to maintain. Prince Henri d’Orleans (1894:371) wrote: "A man carrying a Laotian organ, which he has difficulty in setting up, follows them [i.e. the singers; ws]. The pipes of the organ are so long - nearly fourteen feet - that he is finally obliged to cut a hole in the roof, but the damage can be easily repaired."; NB: ➺ Kén pé (Vietnam).

Pipe lengths according to Blench: more than 6 feet (>1830 mm).


Sources

Blench, Roger: The history and distribution of the free-reed mouth-organ in SE Asia (presented at the 14th EurASEAA meeting, Dublin, September 2012 (Draft submitted for proceedings, 2012), p.10.

Web

Archive.org (D’Orleans, »Around Tonkin and Siam« (London, 1894), p.371 [Website: ➺ p.387])