nose flute

British  

noun

1. (esp in the South Sea Islands) a type of flute blown through the nose

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Example Sentences

Arquette, who has bought the rights to the story of Bozo the Clown and plans to make a film on the children's character, said his "clown thing" was playing the nose flute.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2022

Consisting of Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, it specializes in instruments unlike anything you’ve ever heard: the nose flute, the slide-whistle organ, saxophones made of plumbing.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

I could understand it if the festival was for ethnic Tibetan nose flute music or some other worthy-but-financially-precarious-venture, but for big-name comedy?

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2012

When a woman dies she is treated in the same way, but the nose flute is the only instrument that accompanies her.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl

Bamboo Jew's-harps and mouth flutes are played by the men, but the nose flute, so common in most parts of the Philippines, was not seen in use here.

From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Cole, Fay-Cooper