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Magrī sumpī (gender unknown)

original: ? (Myanmar (Burmese))

?

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: chanter + drone, no bell / free reeds

No identical types known (yet).

Kačin people, Namkhai [Sachs: Namhkai], Shan State, eastern Myanmar [NE of Mandalay]; Marcuse misinterprets Sachs’ description ("ein … eckiges und darüber ein verklebtes rundes [Daumloch]" [a square [thumbhole] with a circular one stuck on top of it]), oddly concluding that the chanter has "2 rear thumbholes".

2 cylindrical tubes, each with a metal Free reed; Left: drone [ca. 230 mm?] / Right: chanter (282 mm) with 5 fingerholes + a thumbhole.

Pībǎt, Roizå


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Die Musikinstrumente Birmas und Assams im K. Ethnographischen Museum zu München. München, 1917, p.43, pl.19* (№ 85).

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Sachs, Birma/Assam).