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Ntiv (gender unknown)

finger

each of the pipes of a mouth organ

Identical types: 26
Qeej

Each of the 6 bamboo pipes of the Qeej; In a legend of the god-king and 7 women, all of who claimed to be the wife of a man called Sinsay, the god-king told them "If all seven of you say that each of you are his wife, then each of you must go and make something so that when all seven parts are put together into one thing that will be able to speak, and words will come out of it. If you cannot do this, your claim is not true." So each of the women went off to make something; The first wife made a pipe called Taub qeej [which actually is the wind chest; ws]; The second wife made the Ntiv lauv; The third wife made the Ntiv tw; The fourth wife made the Ntiv npug; The fifth wife made the Ntiv txug; The sixth wife made the Cej ntiv npug; The seventh wife made the Cej ntiv txug.

From very short (child’s instrument) to very long (longest up to 2000 mm).


Sources

Morrison, Gayle: The Hmong Qeej: Speaking to the Spirit World. In: Hmong Studies Journal v2n2 (Spring 1998), p.2.

Catlin, Amy: Hmong musical instruments. In: The Garland encyclopedia of world music (4): Southeast Asia (ed. 2013).