Thiswoodwind instrument is intended for women. When played, the tubes arelaid horizontally and the player must either stand with her back bentor kneel while clapping her hands at a distance of about 10cm to pushair into the tubes to produce sounds. Generally, each tube producesonly one tone. However, some ethnic groups use the hand to block oneend of the tube to produce some different pitches. With this technique,a two-tube Klong put can produce four or five pitches. The Klong putcan also be played by two girls at a time.

Ethnicminority people often play the Kong put on the milpa land during therice planting time and on the day of closing doors of rice storage. Itis believed that hornless bamboo or ordinary bamboo sections of theKlong put are related to those used for containing breed seeds. Thisbelief seems somewhat reasonable because they both give the same soundswhen being blown with air. In the breed seeds is existing the spirit of"Mother Rice". Therefore, if the Klong put is played on the milpa landduring the planting time, "Mother Rice" will come and help rice growrapidly. If one plays the Klong put on the day of closing doors of therice storage, "Mother Rice" will come along and sleep all winter in thestorage, then when the next planting season comes, she will cometogether with seeds to the milpa land.