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Khen, Laos [3 of 9]  Previous image / Next image Mouth organs, such as the Khen, were first described in China about 3,000 years ago. They are free-reed instruments with a vibrating reed fitted in each pipe. The player blows into the wind chamber and sounds individual pipes by covering the finger holes. The Khen has six, fourteen, or sixteen bamboo pipes in a wood or ivory wind chamber. The largest of these instruments have pipes that are ten feet long. Gift of Donald and Velma Lentz