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this is being sold as "a Japanese flute". seller doesn't know which. at first glance I thought it was a shinobue but... well, look at it.

anyone knows what type of instrument is this? it might not even be Japanese, but it looks too well-built to be a generic souvenir. can a music person tell me what are those four bottom holes in parallel?

*edit*: best current candidate is the xiāo transmom.love/@elilla/11010259…

#music #folkMusic #flute it's not a #shakuhachi but maybe shaku ppl know

A pretty flute, seemingly in bamboo with dark streaks (dunno if natural or susudake). It's quite long, and uniformly thin. From the top it has six holes, four in one node and the other two before and after it, all six close together but unevenly spaced.
Bottom side has what appears to be a common thumb hole at one end, and around the middle four more holes, distributed in a square pattern, two at a go.

elilla, quarantined (@elilla@transmom.love)

Wikipedia says that the Balkan-Anatolian kaval has one thumb hole plus four unfingered "intonation holes", which would match this pattern.
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#music #folkmusic #shakuhachi #flute
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