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wakrapuku

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    …of spiral-shaped horn called the wakrapuku, which is made from sections of cattle horn or pieces of sheet metal; the instrument is played in pairs during an annual fertility ritual. The Mapuche play an end-blown horn called the trutruka, made from a bamboo tube wrapped in horse intestine and capped…

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    …of spiral-shaped horn called the wakrapuku, which is made from sections of cattle horn or pieces of sheet metal; the instrument is played in pairs during an annual fertility ritual. The Mapuche play an end-blown horn called the trutruka, made from a bamboo tube wrapped in horse intestine and capped…

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