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  • Idioglot transverse clarinet of the Bissa people in Burkina Faso. Made from a hollowed-out millet stalk. It has two small gourd resonators with side windows placed over the ends of the stalk. It usually has a finger-hole at the distal end which may be stopped by the left thumb. http://inconstantsol.blogspot.be/2014/01/musique-bisa-de-haute-volta-rec-1961.html

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  • Boū-kām
  • Boumpa
  • Bumpa

Created

  • 2015-08-02

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  • to be translated (en)

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http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/7028

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