A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
Origin
From Japanese 尺八, from Middle Chinese 尺八, from 尺 (an archaic measure of length approximately equal to 30 centimeters) + 八 ("eight").
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