Classification
Dynamics
Pungi typically run from one to two feet in length, and have two shafts used as reeds to create its music. These tubes help differentiate tones by using one for the melody and the other for the drone. The two shafts run together and attach to a larger cavity usually used as a coconut or gourd. The reeds inside of the gourd/coconut vibrate when the air is passed over them thus creating the entrancing music.
Classification Numbers
412 Interruptive free aerophones The air-stream is interrupted periodically
412.11 Paired reeds Two lamellae make a gap which closes periodically during their vibration A split grass-blade
412.1 Idiophonic interruptive aerophones or reeds The air-stream is directed against a lamella, setting it in periodic vibration to interrupt the stream intermittently. In this group also belong reeds with a ‘cover’, i.e. a tube in which the air vibrates only in a secondary sense, not producing the sound but simply adding roundness and timbre to the sound made by the reed’s vibration; generally recognizable by the absence of fingerholes Organ reed stops