Pungi, double clarinet with gourd wind cap, collected in Mysore.The paired bamboo pipes fixed to the wind cap with wax. The right hand pipe with six fingerholes, the left hand pipe with none and functioning as a drone. Gourd wind cap painted with geometrical motifs in red. The name for the instrument recorded by the collector is 'tubri'.
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