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Ney
Middle Eastern end-blown flute

Ney

The ney is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in traditional Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, Jewish, Arab, and Egyptian music.

In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played for over 4,500 years, dating back to ancient Egypt, making it one of the oldest musical instruments still in use.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ney Teixeira de Freitas Guimarães Filho (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.