Kuisi

The cactus stem is thicker at one of its ends, this will go upside and coupled with the bee wax head which carries the feather mouth piece.

Similar flutes are also played in matched pairs by the Kuna (people) (or Cuna) who live around the Darien Gulf in both Colombia and Panama.

[1] On the coastal plain, for example the town of San Jacinto, Bolívar, an ensemble known as the conjunto de gaitas commonly provides the music for the cumbia, porro, and other folk styles such as vallenato.

This ensemble consists of two duct flutes (gaitas), a maraca, and two hand-beaten drums of African descent.

[1] A Colombian historian writing in 1865 (Joaquín Posada Gutiérrez, Memorias histórico-politicas, Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional, 1929) has been cited (by Aquiles Escalante, El negro en Colombia, Monograflas sociologicas no.

...in the early part of the nineteenth century there were great festivities in honor of the patron saint of Cartagena, which at that time was the principal city of the region.

Notable contemporary Colombian performers playing kuisi flutes (or gaitas) include Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto.

The New York-based La Cumbiamba eNeYé[9][10] perform with gaitas constructed by band member Martín Vejarano with mouthpieces made from the feathers of Canada geese sourced in a park in the Bronx.

Spanish based Lumbalú,[11] researching and updating of the different traditional coastal Colombian rhythms under the direction of kuisi bunsi player Hernando Muñoz Sánchez,[12] mixing both traditional kuisis with modern instruments and musical styles.

French archaic flautist Pierre Hamon, of the Alla Francesca ensemble,[13] has also performed on the kuisi bunsi in Ritual1, Ritual 2 and Omaggio Kogui on the Hypnos album (2009).