A pair of crane-bone pipes was excavated in 1933 from an Avar grave near Jánoshida, Hungary, dating from the seventh or eighth century, still clutched in the skeleton's hand and originally bound together; it had five holes on the right pipe, two on the left pipe; this unequal number denotes diverging rather than parallel pipes, and we can safely identify them as reedpipes rather than as flutes—the earliest paired pipes found on European soil so far.
Divergent double pipes resembling...