image title: Fire, not Wind Since I was cut from the reedbed, I have made this crying sound Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back At any gathering I am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving, a friend to each, but few will hear the secrets hidden within the notes, no ears for that Body flowing out of spirit, spirit up from body: no concealing that mixing But it's not given us to see the soul. The reed flute is fire, not wind... (Poem about this flute by Rumi ) Kaval is an ancient flute. Serbs from the south of Serbia (Kosovo) also call it shupelka (from the Serbian word shuple, meaning hollow). It is an end-blown flute with eight finger holes. An end-blown flute is one which has no windway or fipple on the end you blow into, but it is just a straight hollow tube. You can look right through the thing like a spyglass. It's very similar with persian ney.