葫蘆笙

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Chinese

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bottle gourd; calabash; person that can drink a large amount of water (mus. instr.)
trad. (葫蘆笙) 葫蘆
simp. (葫芦笙) 葫芦

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Noun

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葫蘆笙

  1. (music) hulusheng, a free-reed wind instrument similar to the sheng, consisting of multiple bamboo pipes of various lengths inserted into a wind chest made from a dried gourd; most commonly found in the Yunnan province of southwest China where it is used primarily by members of several ethnic minorities