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This instrument is made of bamboo. That bamboo can be got from a long distance. The bamboo is cut as needed and bored holes. It is learnt that a bamboo is cut only for getting one flute. Now, it is very difficult to get long bamboo and so they use water pipe. This instrument which is Bass instrument, can be played together with Kayans’ traditional instruments on the occasions of the wedding, funeral and funfairs. Since yore, this oboe flute has been preserved and handed down from generation to generation as a traditional heritage. There is no exact record in what year and era it appeared. -167.3 cm in the length of the flute -4 cm in the circumference of the flute