Washint

Washint
Woodwind instrument
Classification aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification421.111.12
(end blown flute)
Playing range
unknown, usually players take 20 to 30 washints with them for performing

Washint (Amharic: ዋሽንት) is an end-blown wooden flute originally used in Ethiopia. Traditionally, Amharic musicians would pass on their oral history through song accompanied by the washint as well as the krar, which is a six stringed lyre, and the masenqo, a one string fiddle.

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