The chinese gourd flute, hulusi, is made from a fairly small gourd.
Stan

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Marsbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  My mother used to grow ornamental gourds.    They were like different
> shaped pumpkins and had very hard skin and very watery insides like
> vegetable marrows or zucchini that just dried up and left the hard shell and
> a few seeds maybe rattling inside.  The larger ones you could carefully cut
> the top off and clean out and they would make good water containers.  You
> really only see them used in African instruments these days but it depends
> where you are I guess.
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> Fi
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> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *sylvain gagnon mini moteur 2000 inc
> *Sent:* Sunday, 28 September 2008 8:54 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [HG] Harpe de Gourde
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> "harpe de gourde" is in  french   gourde is a  container    to put water
> when you are in desert ,   or  the recipient   the armed  forces   guys put
> water inside ,,   it  can look  coconut   shell,,, or  alluminium  bottle
> with  green cloth cover all around ..or ? gourde is a  water container ..
> bye  sylvain
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