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Once, there was a very romantic couple. One day, the wife suffered from a disease. No medicine can cure her disease. One day, while the distracted husband went to the farm, he found a dry gourd on the way. When he tried blowing his flute fixed to the dry gourd, he found out it generated very pleasant sound. So, he got back to the home and blew it for the wife. He found her disease responded to the sound of the flute. He found she was better when he blew it fixing two flutes. She got full recovery when he blew it fixing five flutes. After commonly used it, its medicinal influences disappeared and remained as a musical instrument. Five flutes are made of Marfule bamboo which grows in the cold dry area. One hole is perforated in each flute with a heated sharp iron. The small bamboo sheets are put in each flute as the reed. All five flutes are tied together and fixed at the hole of gourd. For the airproof, the hole of the dry gourd connected with the flutes is covered with the beeswax. The longest flute is addressed as Julumar, the forth longest one is Jululelu, the third longest one is Julumarchaw, the second longest one is Julufufu and the shortest one is Juluteeti. Arnmyu means the gourd. Julu stands for the flute. The compound meaning of Arnmyujalu stands for the gourd flute. Blow into the hole at the top of the gourd moving fingers at the holes of the five flutes -1.5 in length -9 inches in circumference of dry gourd -10.5 inches in height of the dry gourd -1 feet 3 inches in length of the longest flute -1 feet in length of the forth longest flute -11 inches in length of the third longest flute -9 inches in length of the second longest flute -8 inches in length of the shortest flute