Putorino, Maori bugle flute formed from a single piece of hard wood that has been split longitudinally. The two halves are bound bound together with two lengths of tight phormium tenax fibre string binding and the instrument has a figure-of-eight shaped fingering hole form to modulate the sound.
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412.132-62 Sets of free reeds with flexible air reservoir

422.112-7 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds with conical bore with fingerhole stopping
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