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wuts dis flute type instrument
at 3:00 the vibratoish long flute thingey almost sounds like some bagpipe maybe.
Moroccan Flute* you dumbass 
*actually, it's more of Nadaswaram but there's no way really telling without actually seeing it up close.
I always thought that it was either a practice chanter or a bombard. Like RANN said, it's hard to tell from the video. Even the audio isn't that telling, but it has a reedy/bagpipe-ish quality to it (but without the telltale drone of a bagpipe/practice chanter)
I think that's a clarinet sample from the old Fairlight or Synclavier systems. It was used loads in the 80s, A-ha for sure and I seem to recall something in a Tanita Tikaram track as well.
Yup it's in here too.
lol he's not blowing in it at the same time it's making a sound 
Well, yeah, he's obviously lip-syncing it for the vid, but I think it's a real instrument. Martin Gore supposedly played an actual melodica on the track (and played it live as well), so it wouldn't surprise me that the other instrument was real, too. Then again, it could be sampled. One of my bands covered this song back in the day and I got pretty close to that sound using modified oboe patch from my Roland D20 of all things.
edit: f'in wikipedia has everything:
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| In addition to "found" sounds used as samples, the single also samples a variety of musical instruments, such as the xylophone and a melodica (which Martin has been known to play on stage for the song). |
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| Originally posted by tehlord Yup it's in here too. |
its supposed to be a pungi, and since it is depeche mode, they made it gay with the fair light. do you guys not read ?
To the OP:
The English language is dead at your feet, blood leaking from the chainsaw wounds in its chest as you ejaculate over its mangled corpse.
what preset is this? vanguard?
It's not a pungi; they have a large ball like chamber near the reed and it's splits in to two pipes at the end.
Again, what you actually see in the video is a moroccan flute or Nadaswaram for it's technical name. But I'm actually leaning towards Geoff's answer as it's really quite difficult to play a straight note with those instruments and the sound in the track only has vibrato at the end which is also a little synthetic.
supposed to be,
i.e. they wanted you to think of snakes and shit.
Just saw the video, double reed, without the ball, Shennhai or some shit . It isn't either of them because the pitch is well western and ya , it sounds like a machine
But come on , fair light. I mean how many bands had access or would even want o use it.
Definitely not a clarinet. The clarinet has a very tame overtone structure . Oboe maybe if you fucked with but i'm only saying that because of it is a a double reed and has a nasal isn quality at that range.
But why the fuck do you want that sound.
Of course they had access to Fairlights. I used a studio back in about '88 and they had a Fairlight there, and that wasn't a partiucularly large one. It was �75/hr for night rates and we had to wait 3 months to get a spot. Studios had money back then.
That is a clarinet (or maybe Oboe) from a Fairlight though, I recall reading about it several years back. It wasn't uncommon for sample patches not to sound like their name back then. 
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| Originally posted by DJ RANN Geoff's answer |
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