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  angkalung (angklung)

 

Thailand

The angkalung is a bamboo percussion instrument of Sundanese-Indonesian origin with an onomatopoeic name and is known in both English and Indonesian as angklung. There are various types and this one, typically played by a single musician, consists of a number of bamboo tubes in variable lengths that are attached to a fixed wooden frame and rattle in different pitches when struck, corresponding to their length.

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