Hnyìn

Burmese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 681

A type of mouth organ, now obsolete, with ten bamboo pipes set in a long-necked gourd. It was once used in Burmese chamber music.

Hnyìn, Bamboo, gourd, Burmese

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