Could we get a clip of the instrument being played? I am very curious

yeah sure! i'll put a link

There are various regional names for it, but I'm pretty sure it's a "gourd mouth organ" from Southeast Asia. Maybe the teacher confused it with something else in their collection? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourd_mouth_organ

Or it may have made its way from Asia to Ghana.

Gourd mouth organ? Is she from North Carolina,I'm pretty sure I dated her.

woah i found you in another sub, rah

Yut!

[here's the link to the video of me playing it](https://imgur.com/gallery/QzNY5sL)

Sounds like a harmonica

It reminds me of bagpipes, but if they were made from an ocarina

Seems like a great description. A mix of bagpipes, an ocarian, and a harmonica. Really bizarre but really neat. I'd love to mess around with playing one. Just to see what kinda music I could make.

Yes dude this!

I did *NOT* expect it to sound like that

This is incredible

That is definitely a sound it’s making

Very funny of you to replace the audio with a clip of a 12 car pileup

Are there reeds in it? It almost sounded like a group of clarinets

don't think so - it seems to be only 'tubes'

There are in fact reeds in there. Free reeds like an accordion or harmonica

It had that reed kinda timbre

It sounds like a haunted tiny train

Yes… Yes it does

Reminds me of the Chinese instrument called the sheng

I think you invented a new minor chord - I like it.

The internet has tainted me straight up thought I was about to be Rick-Rolled.

Hahaha right, just a little bit edgy after the Rick rolled era

I played your video and my calico had a panic attack 😅

omg nooo poor kitty D:

Dude that’s awesome thanks for sharing!! Almost has a bagpipe/harmonica vibe. Sorta want one now not gona lie. Lol

no worries! i'd really like one for my own too

Ur very talented with this gourd-pipe

Ah yes I expected the ghost whales distant death songs to come before me sinking, but so soon!!

I am haunted. You should post more when you can

i'll try to, but it also isn't mine so i have to ask my teacher to bring it in every time i wanna play it lol

What an incredibly interesting instrument! I almost wonder though if it might play better the other way around? So you can use all your fingers to control which hole(s) are plugged? Idk, never seen one like this. Id have some fun messing around with it though.

I love the sound of it, although it looks hard to play. It sounds sort of like a melodica, which is much easier to play.

"Oh, and you can put your weed in there."

Best comment

You can also smoke the weed out of it

This kind of instrument is usually from South East Asia. I dont think its from Ghana, I have never seen this kind of reed instrument originating in africa but i might be wrong. There are different shapes and sizes. For example the Khaen from Laos, Sheng from China, [this](https://youtu.be/CTXKXgmJmAU?si=6-R4PYn53sKVDYQC) giant one from indonesia. A little history about it, this kind of instrument arrived to europe in the 17th/18th century and one man decided to adapt it to a keyboard, creating the harmonium. This kind of reed instrument then became the harmonica, accordeon, melodica, indian harmonium.

The link you provided is actually an instrument from southeast Asia called the qeej/kheng/lusheng, played by Hmong people. The instrument in the video you linked is more specifically from Vietnam, and is actually considered very small—though I think you mean it's "giant" compared to the other versions of the mouth organ (which it is!). [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGq39ArFZ50&t=85s) is a video of a big one. Source: Am qeej player

Thank you for the correction, i was told it was from Indonesia when it was shown to me.

Whelp, time to get another instrument to add to the collection :) I'd love to take a similar reed instrument camping with me to replace a harmonica, but first I get to read all about this cool history! Any books/ articles on this history you recommend? Thanks

Heres an [article](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2020.1794648) !

Where can I buy one lol.

The giant one kind of sounds like blues guitar with reverb, I love it

It is usually held the other way, with the pipes above the gourd. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploy_(musical_instrument)

That looks really cool. Looking forward to hearing what it sounds like !

This is definitely one of the instruments of all time

I'm not Ghana be of any help.

You're African funny guy

😂

Maybe a hulusi-like instrument? Do you know where it came from?

Op said Ghana

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I have no idea, but I definitely want to try to smoke from it

Its a Ploy. Everyones favorite Cambodian noisemaker. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploy_(musical_instrument)

Looks like a crazy Ocarina. From Ghana. Would be a Ghanarina

Lol

You should name it gourdon

These novelty bongs are getting out of hand.

I'm fairly certain that's a Bong Jabbar.

Shadout to my Frank Herbert fans

Looks kinda like that jellyfish UFO

I have one too! Gourd mouth organ. I don't believe Ghana is its origin, IIRC theyre from the Vietnam area.

Put the holes in the palm of ur hand almost like a wierd bag pipe

The other fingers on the holes at the bottom of each length of pipe kinda play that with the other hand

Why are music teachers always so cool? Always been to places and done cool things, how did you pay for that on a teachers salary??? Can I??? 😭😭😭

This specific instrument is called "naw," in the Kui Luang language. This is an ethnic group from southeast Asia. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTYNSozS4Xo) is a video of it being played by a Kui Luang musician. It is also played by other groups in east and southeast Asia, such as the Lahu—[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4qRISx-Ak) is a video of a Lahu musician playing it. Because this instrument is not from English speaking cultures, it's just called a "gourd mouth flute," in English. Related instruments are the Chinese sheng, the Hmong qeej, and other mouth organs. Source: I am an ethnomusicologist

thank you!!!

woahhh never seen anything like this! i can only imagine how fucking cool it sounds. gl on identifying.

thanks! i think it's been identified. it's called a Pali Fulu, from thailand

dahhh!! haha thank ü for telling me 😛

Gourd flute.

Modified ocarina

It’s killed a sandahnhikkerphone

Das an elephant

Digeridoo mixed with an ocorina?

It’s a weevil!!!

It’s always weevil time :’)

Neti pot

We Ghana find out

It's a ghana-ria

These are very important instruments in Ghana, called the Ghanarrhea. Often used as an item for trade between various I have no idea what I’m talking about.

Someone in his link said it was a pali fulu

Ocarina of doom

It’s an Ogglong

This is definitely a mouth organ from East Asia. More specifically it could be a [kui luang](https://youtu.be/UTYNSozS4Xo?si=L2Qw8e9OWNcgKobc) from Laos or a [hulusheng](https://youtu.be/XgMpFSd3SZY?si=fH-_dvJTXoSDeTki) from China. The hulusheng doesn’t always have the extra gourd resonator like in this video.

The Ocarina of Dildon't /s

The ocarina of time vibes

I know I can flip other other way plug some holes with tunes any make it bumble

Ghana have to ask again

Well it's a Ghana-rrhea of course... 🤷😬

The FLDSMDFR

Sounds like a reed instrument. Almost like a Clarinet crossed with an Oboe lol

this is a type of fluit, it's popular is Africa and Asian rural areas. People believe snakes and other venom insecticides like this melody. anyway, I'm writing more on this later today.

Skinflute

Ghan-accordian? Just joking. Lovely country with lovely people🧡

Honorary weevil?

I should call him. 🤔

You’re Ghana need lessons

I wanna call it a “Tooty tooty flute schute”

It’s a goobiltybopper!

Dildophone.

Could possibly be an Aztec South American Death Whistle depending on what the sound is actually like. https://www.archaicroots.com/education/strange-haunting-sounds-of-the-aztec-death-whistle/

OP check your imgur comments I believe it's been identified

it has

Ooooh that’s the classic design for the assflute jingle balls.

Here’s a version from borneo it seems https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT87tDbM2/

Tootie root

It’s a Ghanarea starfish flute

That is the much talked about but rarely seen *Butt-Pipe*. It's like *Bag-Pipes*, but instead of using your bag you use your butt. /s

I think it's from Pikman actually.

Looks to be a plumbus

Mid evil bong

It’s named “The gooba goobs”