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The onugadu is a Maldivian musical instrument made of a piece of
bamboo Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial plant, perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily (biology), subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in th ...
that is scored horizontally and rasped with a stick. One source describes it as having "an eerie,
gamelan Gamelan (; ; , ; ) is the traditional musical ensemble, ensemble music of the Javanese people, Javanese, Sundanese people, Sundanese, and Balinese people, Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussion instrument, per ...
-like sound."Kirsten Ellis, Dominic (PHT) Sansoni. ''The Maldives''. Passport Books, 1992. ,
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