This is an original flute-apron that can be worn as a garment, the flute being horizontally draped, yoke-like, behind the shoulders with the ncema grass mat-strips hanging in front and behind the body. The strips may be adorned in any manner, using sewn or drawn patterns, with text, beads, shells, totems, amulets, reflectors, etc. This five-holed variation on umtshingo is blown in the middle. The normal Bantu hexatonic and pentatonic scales of either minor or major modes are obtainable from upwards of an octave above the fundamental.