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The sipsi (also known as sipsi-sipsi) is a single-reed wood-wind instrument with a cylindrical bored tube. Typically it has 5-8 large fingerholes including a hole for the left thumb. The instrument is manufactured out of a hollow plantstalk (mostly bamboo) or wood. The sound is moderately powerfull for a single-reed instrument. It's mostly played with circular breathing. The large fingerholes don't allow to use crossfingerings but the sipsi has a very large range to slide the tones.
The sipsi manufactured out of a hollow plantstalk may be the oldest reed instrument on which a melody can be played. It's manufactured nearly unchanged to date.

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