| Description |
By using Rakhine iron fiddlel Drum was found at the period of Visali of the king of Chandra. At the time of king Chandra, the lyrical ode of the crown-princess Saw Pyae Nyo was played with the various kinds of instruments. Long-drum and Than-Lwin-drum contained in this instruments. In the Myanmar era of 897 ( 1535 AD ) when was called Lay Myoe Age, King Min Bar built Yan Aung Zaya Shittaung stupa with a vaulted vase. Rakhine oil lamp dance, Shawl dance, Powewar dance, the sports of Mrauk.U period such as the posture of wrestling, boxing, the stick martial art and the figures in the posture of playing the Rakhine musical instruments such as the Rakhine Duelong harp, bamboo pipes wind instrument/ melodious small drum, hand-cymbals, cymbals/ horn/ long drum, Marlakhon fiddle, the bugle, the cymbal and the flute were sculpted as the ancient supporting evidences of Rakhine iron flute on the western wall of the second tunnel of Shitthaung pagoda.
Iron-rod is bored with holes. The conical shape of iron is put on the top of the iron-rod.
It is produced tune by making close or open on fret which is bored with holes.
-1 feet 2 inches in length
-3 inches in girth
-1.5 inches in the distance between holes of flute
-4 inches in the diameter of the conical shape of iron
-5.5 inches in the height of the conical shape of the iron |
