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AsiaJammu and KashmirLadakhLeh
Photographer: MS | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalThis double-reed instrument has a metal body with seven frontal tone holes and an openwork nickel silver casing decorated with floral motifs. There is a larger circumferential ring on the funnel. Several turquoises adorn the instrument between the finger holes. It is a surnāī, which is played at social and religious ceremonies in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.