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.

On the island of Alor the most notable instrument is the kettle-drum, moko, already referred to, which plays a special part in bride purchase. There are also small Jew's harps (motith-barps), bamboo flutes, drums with one head, and, on practically all the islands, small gongs, which were presumably imported from Java.

Finally, reference may be made to the 'vibrated-shrick' songs of the women of the island of Si1mba. This is certainly a relic of ritual customs; with songs of this kind they must have welcomed their husbands after a successful head-hunting expedition.

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