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Kupuốt / Ku puốt (gender unknown)

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Mouth organ with a gourd as wind chest

Identical types: 21
Đing nǎm

Raglay (Raglai, or Rai) people (provinces Ninh Thuận and Khánh Hòa, South Central Coast region, on the border of the Central Highlands]); 6 pipes in 2 sets (4+2); Blench states that "The Roglai [sic] hold the instrument at right angles to the body, so that the pipes project laterally rather than forward"; Having seen, however, only one and the same photo of such a posture (in Blench and other sources [➺ also the YouTube video to Ku puot]), I’m not convinced that this is common practice.

Gourd, with bamboo pipes (380-780 mm; Ø 20 mm).

Mboat, M’buốt, Nboat


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.9 (Kupuot).

Web

Viện Âm Nhạc [Music Institute]; NB (ws): Click on the subject for a short video and more information in Vietnamese [2019: Unfortunately, the optional English translation is of a rather poor quality!]
memorynet.org (Ku puốt)
YouTube (Ku puot)