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8. Fife — Garo. Traverse; very small bore; reed 55 cm. long, 
1.1 cm. inside diameter. The finger holes are near the opposite 
end from the mouth-hole. 
III. WIND INSTRUMENTS — ^HORN TYPE 
9. Wooden trumpet — Africa. Total length, 87 cm. In this 
horn the mouthpiece is on the side, and the actual blowing length 
is 58 cm. The diameter at the large end is 9 cm. From the 
mouthpiece to the open end, the horn is covered with natural 
fibre and wrapped with rattan. 
IV. DEFINITE PERCUSSION 
10. Gong — Burma. Diameter 18 cm. with a 3 cm. edge turned 
up; but slight attempt at decoration. 
11. Kyizi — Burma. Two very small hollow hemispheres of 
bronze through which a string is fastened, are allowed to strike 
together, giving the impression of tinkling bells. These are only 
3 cm. across. 
12. Zanze or Biti — Africa. Eleven tongues of iron are 
mounted on a hollow sound board in such fashion that they can 
be plucked by the thumbs when the instrument is held in the 
two hands. This instrument is akin to the marimbas but 
scarcely a typical percussion type. According to the savage 
notion, the twanging is made more beautiful by the rattling of 
small beads on some of the tongues, when the instrument is 
played. The box is 27.5 cm. by 13 and 16 cm. (flaring) and 
1.5 to 3.5 cm. deep. The vibration of the other end of each 
tongue is stopped by a strip of leather on the face of the instru- 
ment. . The scales of no two instruments of this type are alike. 
The Denison specimen gives: g' flat, f', c', a', B, A flat. A, d 
flat, f, b, e'. 
V. STRINGED INSTRUMENTS — ^WITHOUT FINGERBOARD 
13. Gopi-Jantra, Monochord — Garo. (Tura, Assam.) A cala- 
bash gourd is fitted with a skin bottom through which a single 
wire is fastened by means of a button. (This use of a European 
