Keledi

Description

Mouth organ made with a bottle gourd wind chamber pierced with eight bamboo pipes, arranged in two parallel ranks of four tubes each. The ends of the tubes inside the wind chamber are equipped with free reeds. The pipes are secured with rattan lacing, and the connection between pipes and gourd is sealed with a black resin/wax mixture. Different pitches are produced through fingerholes on the exposed part of each tube, or by stopping the open end of the tube itself.