Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument used in Java and other parts of Malaysia, consisting of bamboo tubes so cut that when struck or shaken they give definite tones. Usually the tubes are in pairs tuned at the interval of the fifth.
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The most unpromising and curious of all, however, is the _anklong_ of Sumatra, which is all of bamboo, and has neither finger-holes, keys, strings nor parchment.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
ducky4djo commented on the word anklong
Definition: bamboo wind instrument.
December 28, 2008