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Duct flute (khlui phīang ǭ)
Duct flute (khlui phiang o)
Duct flute (khlui phīang ǭ)
mid-20th century
Object Place: Thailand
Medium/Technique
Bamboo
Dimensions
Length 44.1 cm, diameter 2.8 cm (Length 17 3/8 in., diameter 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number1984.281
CollectionsContemporary Art, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionBamboo body with wood (?) plug for duct; burned-on repeating decorative pattern. Seven fingerholes and one thumbhole. Two pairs of holes drilled at right-angles at lower end of body (the transverse pair for a cord for carrying or decoration, the other for venting?). One hole between duct and highest fingerhole, covered with mirliton of unknown substance (bamboo fiber?).
ProvenanceBetween 1980 and 1984, sold by Lillian Caplin, Center for Musical Antiquities, New York, to Douglas Deihl, Northampton, Massachusetts; 1984, sold by Deihl to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1984)