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Tūmerī (gender unknown)

original: ? [Singhalese?/Tamil?]

?

Hornpipe with a mouthpiece: gourd / chanter + drone, no bell / idioglot single reeds: down-cut

Identical types: 2

According to Marcuse "equivalent of the Tiktirī in Ceylon" (Sri Lanka), referring to Mahillon as her source, but I’m not so sure that she is correct; NB: ➺ India.


Sources

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Mahillon).

Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, II, p.7 [location?; 2018: mentioned in index only (!).

Web

Archive.org (Mahillon: ➺ p.499).