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Manage No PI00004461 Country Myanmar Year 2014-08-16 ICH Domain Performing Arts, Traditional craft skills
| Description | The ancestors came to settle at farms, building bamboo shacks as their crops thrived. They noticed a pleasant sound when the air blew into the hole of the bamboo. Then, they made a flute to produce that sound. As they found out that the sound of one-hole flute frightened the parrots which destroyed the crops, they expanded the holes to six. After cutting Marfule bamboo in desired measure, it's bored the holes with a heated sharp iron including six finger holes and one mouth-hole. A cloth or paper stopper is put into the flute. Blow at the mouth-hole maneuvering the finger holes with the fingers. The traditional and other melodies can be blown with it. -1 feet 2 inches in length -1.5 inches in circumference -4.5 inches in length from from the end of the flute to the mouth-hole -4 inches from the mouth-hole to the first hole of the fingerboard | ||
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| Place | Zadone Township, Kachin state | File Size | 136KB |
| Definition | 1320 X 880 | File Format | PNG |
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