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wide. Mouth-piece plugged with wedge-shaped plug, the thicker end being 
interior. The embouchure is built up with wax to narrow the duct. Three 
stops in front, none behind. This instrument was used by a Siamese child, to 
accompany the workings of a toy puppet in imitation of the wayang ktilit 
shadow dance figures. 
27. Flageolet , Ban Pra Muang, Trang (PI. XXI, Fig. 14). 
Similar in form to No. 23, but somewhat differently constructed. Of 
dark, mottled bamboo, twelve and five-eighths inches long, seven-eighths inch 
wide, upper end re-inforced with a ferule of horn. The bamboo has been 
split along one side and has been mended with three bands of cane work, the 
crack having been stopped with wax. Seven stops in front, the lowest plugged 
with wax ; one stop at the back, slightly above the uppermost of those on the 
other side ; sound orifice as in No. 23. 
28. Pigeon-call. Malay name, hula deem . Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchik 
(PI. XX, Fig. 15). 
Body of large bamboo, twenty and a half inches long, dosed by a node 
near one end, open and prolonged into a spur at the other. Sound-orifice upon 
the upper surface below the node ; the air being driven against it through a long 
duct formed of a narrow bamboo tube, thirty-two inches long, which passes 
through an upright wooden rest, which is tenoned through the larger bamboo 
above the node. A binding of plaited rattan, which is braced to the upright, 
keeps the duct in position. When blown through, the instrument emits a rich, 
mellow note, which varies with the force of the blast. It is used for calling a 
particular kind of wild pigeon called kabo-ko-phi in Siamese. This pigeon-call 
is identical in all particulars with one used by the Kadyans and Mu ruts of 
Northern Borneo for luring the little green pigeons (Chakopbaps in died) y pro- 
ably the same species which is captured by its aid in the Malay Peninsula. 
There is a specimen in the British Museum (Murut), and its use is well 
described by F. W. Burbridge . 1 
1 Several specimens were seen at Ban Sai Kau, all closely similar, and we 
found it difficult on Bukit Besar to distinguish between the cry of the real 
pigeon and its imitation. The Selangor pigeon-call appears to be very much 
larger/ 
29. Oboe. Samsam name, semeu Pulau Telibun, Trang (PI. XXI, 
Fig. 16). 
Tube of wood, tapering slightly upwards, carved with raised bands between 
the stops, which are six in number in front and one at the back. Plain bell- 
mouth of light wood. Into the upper end of the tube is inserted a reed-carrier of 
1 . Tht Cardtm of the Sun t p. 7 3. 
z. Sec W. W. Skeat, Malay Magu , p, 133, pi. 4. 
