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Description: | Diple, double cylindrical clarinet. The body comprising two parallel tubes bored into a single piece of wood. The upper surface scalloped to assist finger location. The pipe to the player’s right has six finger holes while the left has two finger holes which are adjacent to the lower two holes on the right pipe. The holes are small and angled towards the lower end at the outer surface. A beating reed is set into the proximal end of each pipe. These are covered by a windcap in the form of a wooden cone. The outer surface of the windcap is carved with geometric patterns and the mask of a moutached man. Vertical lines are carved into the sides of the pipes. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | diples double clarinets | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14338 |
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