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Kuisi a traditional flute instrument made from a hollowed cactus stem, with a beeswax and charcoal powder mixture for the head, with a quill made from a goose or turkey feather for the mouthpiece. There are male and female versions of the pipe (or Gaita), the female Kuisi Bunsi (or Gaita Hembra) with 5 holes, and the male Kuisi Sigi (or Gaita Macho) with two. According to Abadia Morales (Abadia Morales, Guillermo. ABC del folklore Colombia, Santafé de Bogotá: Panamericana Editorial, 1995) these "beaked" flutes are adaptions of the original kuisis of the Kogi people of the Sierra Nevada in the province of Santa Marta.

Sturman, Janet L. 'Technology and Identity in Colombian Popular Music', 2003. In Music and technoculture edited by René T. A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Wesleyan University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8195-6514-8

Kuisis are played in traditional form among Cuna and Kogi Indians, the male and female in counterpoint to each other, combined with drums and the maraca. The player of the kuisi sigi holds the gaita in one hand, the maraca in the other, and playing both simultaneously.

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Ellen Speiser, 2003.

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• kuisi - flute instrument made from a hollowed cactus stem, with a beeswax and charcoal powder mixture for the head, with a quill made from a goose or turkey feather for the mouthpiece. There are male and female versions of the pipe (or Gaita), the female Kuisi Bunsi (or Gaita Hembra) with 5 holes, and the male Kuisi Sigi (or Gaita Macho) with two.