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Flute |
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The flute is called ishpri.
It is played only during the autumn season.
It is an end blown wooden pipe, sometimes metallic, and have no
mouthpiece. There are five finger-holes and the instrument is held
inclined. The length is about 30 cm and 1.5 cm in diameter.
Usually ishpri is a solo instrument and played alone but
sometimes it is accompanied by dau (or daf in
Khowar), an one sided frame drum, an instrument similar
to a tambourine. This set playing, ishpri and dau is
accompanied by dances. Actually, this is not traditionl Kalasha type
of music but that of the Tsatruma people, the converted Kafirs.
But the Kalasha perform this type of music on weddings and also on
the last day of the Chaumos festival.