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Aˉ mo k’o_ (gender unknown)

calabash

inflexible air reservoir, lodging the chanter tubes of some hornpipes; Also the base of Southeast Asian mouth organs, serving as an "air distributor"

Identical types: 8

Laˇhu_ nyiˉ (Red Lahu); The calabash plays an important role in one of the Laˇhu_ legends, according to which their ancestors originally crawled out of this fruit.

Iˉ hpu ̬


Sources

Schwörer, Gretel: Die Mundorgel bei den Laˇ Hu_ in Nord-Thailand: Bauweise, Funktion und Musik, 1: Darstellung. Hamburg, 1982, p.39.