This island, too, became almost completely Christianized, but the art of the natives was spared. In the districts of Ende and Lio very harmonious diatonic harvest songs are popular. The singing of the people of Manggarai resembles yodelling, whilst in other districts even three- and four-part singing is known. A rather remarkable relic of Western influence upon eastern Flores exists in the shape of folk-songs originating from 17th-century north-western Europe, which have survived in a form almost unmodified by time. The Portuguese and Ambonese, too, have also left traces of their presence here

As far as musical instrument are concerned, Flores possesses indirectly blown bass flutes, which are only to be found on this island, and also) bamboo zithers, bamboo slit-drums, small gongs, pan-pipes very primitive one-stringed lutes played with the bow, and a very simply constructed xylophone.

Much of the music played by the inhabitants of tile central districs of Timor corresponds to that oil Flores, although it lacks the s.1me rich variety of form. The inhabitants of tile coastal districts, on the other hand, were exposed to various foreign influences, and have thus lost much of their individuality. From the neighboring island of Roti they have adopted a particularly five instrument, a bamboo zither, sesundo, with between tell and thirty-six strings of copper wire and a hemispherical resonator made of leaves of tile nipah palm.

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