PI00004567
Pherung
It is a wind instrument which is made of bamboo and dried gourd. A good quality of bamboo was chopped during the month when bamboos were chopped and then they have to be smoked or dried or fumed or desiccated. Small pipes of bamboo are inserted into the dried gourd. They are fixed one pipe of bamboo is in front of it and three pipes of bamboo are at the back. The small bamboos are bored small holes. According to the song, it has to be blown the air at the top of the dried gourd which has fixed small bamboo pipes of small holes have to be pressed to produce song.
Dried gourd
-9 inches in length
-6 inches in height
-1 feet in width
Bamboo pipe ( front )
-1 feet in height
Bamboo ( back )
-1 feet and 3 inches in height
Myanmar
2014