The ''tambin'' (also ''sereendu'', ''fulannu'' or ''Fula flute'') is a diagonal diatonic flute without a bell, made from a conical vine, with three finger-holes and a rectangular embouchure with two wings on either side. It is considered the
national instrument of the
Fula people
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of
West Africa
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and is similar in its sound and quality to the Middle Eastern ''
ney''. The flute has a two and a half octave range, achieved by
overblowing to different
overtone
An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound. (An overtone may or may not be a harmonic) In other words, overtones are all pitches higher than the lowest pitch within an individual sound; the fundamental i ...
s. It is traditionally tuned to an approximately
equidistant heptatonic scale. Players often employ a technique of singing alternately or simultaneously to blown notes. The flute was used in the 2018
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Black Panther
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