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Mouth organ (khaen paet)
mid-20th century
Object Place: Thailand
Medium/Technique
Bamboo, wood
Dimensions
Height 90.5 cm, width 13.3 cm, depth 5.4 cm (Height 35 5/8 in., width 5 1/4 in., depth 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph R. Coolidge in memory of his wife, Peggy Stuart Coolidge
Accession Number1981.772
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Aerophones
DescriptionBarrel-shaped hardwood windchest pierced by sixteen bamboo pipes. Each pipe has reed of undetermined metal (probably bronze) and small single fingerhole in varying positions. Pipes bound together in three places with bamboo strips. Joint between windchest and pipes sealed with undetermined black mastic (kiroot?).
ProvenanceBy 1968, purchased in a "Woolworth"-type shop in Bangkok, Thailand, by Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913-1981), New York; 1981, by inheritance to her husband, Joseph R. Coolidge (1916-1999), New York; 1981, gift of Coolidge to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1981)