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Photographer: MS | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalThis oboe is a Sunaj (mu-suona or Surnai), Xinjiang, chin. Turkestan) from Kashgar, western China. "mu" means wood. The body is richly decorated with ornate inlays. It has six tone holes at the front, a seventh tone hole offset to the side and a thumb hole between the first and second finger holes. The instrument is in one piece and has an almost cylindrical inner bore, which only widens conically in the funnel. The lip disc and double reed are made of plastic.