单词 | nose-flute |
释义 | nose-fluten. A musical instrument blown with the nose, originating in the Pacific islands and South-East Asia. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > flute > nose-flute nose-flute1775 pungi1864 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 72 I have also examined the nose-flute of Otaheite. 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 16 The nose-flutes of the Society and Feejee Islanders. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 81 The nose-flute is played in Siam. 1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 132 They [sc. musical instruments of the Malay Peninsula] are almost always made of bamboo, some of the most primitive kinds being of special ethnographical interest, notably the bamboo Jew's harp and the nose-flute. 1937 Man 37 135/2 His analysis of the nguru shows, too, that this was more probably a mouth-blown whistle than a ‘nose-flute’ proper. 2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 220/2 Nose-flutes were once common on several islands, but nowadays are only played in Tonga and, to a lesser extent, Hawaii. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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