FASCICULI MALATENSES u 
tin bound with thread ; double sounding-reed made of double layers of palm- 
leaf. Lip-rest of coeoanut shell. A seventh stop in front above the others 
and a corresponding stop at the back have been plugged up with wax, and are 
functionless. This oboe was used to accompany a rebab (fiddle), No. 34. It 
was probably made in Kedah. 
4 Sounding-reeds, very similar to that used with this oboe, are employed 
as deer-calls in Jalor. As a rule two are tied together with a long string, so 
that one may be available if the other goes wrong. 
30. Oboe. Malay name, sernei . K am pong Jalor, Jalor. 
Similar to the last, but with tube of turned wood, varnished ; six stops 
in front, one at the back. Upper end of tube carved, as is also the bell- 
mouth. Reed missing. 
‘This was used, together with rebab y three drums (cf No. 11), and simple 
bamboo clappers, in theatrical performances. 1 
31. PFbizzing-stick or Bull-roarer. Malay name, her baling 1 or baling. 
Kampong Jalor, Jalor (Fig. 5, upper figure). 
A very thin, blade-like slip of bamboo, eight inches by three-quarters 
inch, cut off square at the lower end, shaped with sloping shoulders and 
narrow neck for attachment of string at upper end. Attached by a piece of 
string to a small, slender stick, about thirteen inches long. It is whirled 
round in the air and produces a humming sound. 
4 Now almost obsolete, but occasionally made as a Malay child’s toy. 
Formerly it was used for scaring elephants from plantations. 1 
The name berbaling is also applied to the toy wind-mills (see Fig. 3 
in the text). 
32. Whizzing-stick or Bull-roarer. Pa tan 1 town (Fig. 5, lower figure). 
A very thin blade of bamboo, shaped like the usual form of spear-head, 
more or less leaf-shaped, with a tang ; ten and a quarter inches long. The 
i. Mr. W. W. Skeat suggest* that the name is really bebaUng or btbaling —a reduplicated form of baling. 
Owing to the burr with which it i« spoken it is often impossible to transliterate words in the Patani dialect 
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