Pointed flute

Pointed flute wooden flute with doubly notched mouthpiece, barrel-shaped at the upper end, with a cylindrical or inverted conical lower section. Used by buffalo hunters of Timor. Exactly the same instr. is found in Sokoto Province of Nigeria and among some peoples of the Upper Nile. See: dunda, feku (118, 123). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Kunst, Jaap. The Cultural Background of Indonesian Music. Amsterdam, 1949. Kunst, Jaap. “The Origin of the Kemanak,” in Bijdragen tot de…