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AsiaIraqNortheast Iraq
Photographer: MS | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalThis old double-reed instrument with seven almost equal frontal tone holes comes from the possession of a prominent virtuoso from Sulaymaniyah. The so-called Bālabān has a thick-walled, inverted conical body made of reddish-brown, oiled wood with two tinplate hoops at the lower end of the body. Fire decorations can be seen on the mouthpiece shaft.