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- The skudučiai (a kind of panpipes) is an old musical instrument that was quite popular around the end of the 19th century, especially for sutartinės.
The skudučiai is a set of pipes of various size, each stopped at the bottom, tuned to particular notes and played by a group of performers.
The skudučiai is made of young ash wood. The skudučiai is blown keeping it in a vertical position. The mouth-hole is pressed to the lower lip.
The set of the skudučiai pipes are not tied together and, as a rule, they are blown not by one player but by a group of them. In this way polyphonic music of original harmony of seconds can be produced.
- 23-piece set
Chromatic scale starting on small G (G below middle C) and going up almost 2 octaves to F.
- Vilnius, Lithuania
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