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to have some simple sort of vibratory apparatus, but the descrip- 

 tion is rather vague so that it is not easy to recognise the 

 construction of the instrument from it. Recently Mr. E. W. 

 Byrde presented to the Sarawak Museum two primitive bamboo 

 pipes with " beating" reeds from the Land-Dyaks of Upper 

 Sarawak and later I myself had the opportunity of seeing similar 

 instruments plaj^ed by Land-Dyaks of the Upper Sadong dis- 

 trict. I have now no doubt that St. John's description of the 

 Murut pipe applies to an instrument entirely similar to the Land- 

 Dyak examples. No other tribes in Borneo bit these two — 

 Muruts and Land-Dyaks — appear to employ this instrument. 



1. Land-Dyak — Serubayi or Serune. 



a. (Plate VIII fig. 13.) 



Two slender tubes of bamboo bound together with a grass 

 strapping ; the proximal ends are closed by the natural septa and 

 the wall of the tubes has been pared down for a length of about 

 7 centim. so as to be quite thin ; a vibrating tongue (jorah) has 

 been cut in this part of the wall in each tube by slitting from 

 above downwards a slender strip) thus forming a " beating" 

 reed ; a fine hair is tied round one pipe to restrict the play of 

 the tongue. One of the tubes, known as the laki or male tube is 

 provided with five stops (quayet) about 2*6 centim. apart, the 

 other, known as the puan or female tube, has none. The laki has 

 a short length of bamboo {tuba) fitted over its distal end whilst 

 the distal end of the puan or drone-pipe is obliquely truncated. 

 Length of laki 49*1 cm.; length of drone-pipe 37 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1275. E. W. Byrde, Esq. [P. 6. vii. 03.] 



b. A very similar specimen, but each pipe has a short 

 length of bamboo fitted over its distal end ; length of laki 46 cm. 

 length of drone-pipe 40 cm. 



Catalogue No. 1276. E. W. Byrde, Esq. [P. 6. vii. 03.] 



Both of these come from Krokong village, Upper Sarawak, 

 and are known as Serubayi. The note of the drone-pipe is sup- 

 posed to be the same as the note of the laki when all the stops 

 but the fourth are closed, and in order to tune the pipes either 



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