The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Vietnam has a rich treasure of traditional musical instruments, of which bamboo instruments are the oldest. A bamboo musical instrument of the central highlanders called T'rung Bamboo, a familiar ...

The Karatong Festival Street Performers are among the concert’s featured artists in the virtual concert. Attention ethnic music enthusiasts. The rich diversity of the country’s bamboo musical ...

Flautist Marselus Selu has started a music collective on the island of Flores to foster traditional wind instruments made from native bamboo. The 64-year-old taught himself to build and play the ...

An artisan checks Yuping bamboo flutes at a workshop in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 23, 2019. As a traditional Chinese musical instrument, Yuping bamboo ...

Agartala (Tripura) [India], November 7 (ANI): As part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, students from a music college have completed a one-month internship program organised by Bamboo & ...

Ages passed, and Emperor Shun did not return. His two wives, Ehuang and Nuying were worried about their husband. They decided to go to Hunan to look for Emperor Shun. They were told Emperor Shun died ...

If you stepped into a studio at China Central Television in Beijing last month, you would have found a world of bamboo musical instruments rendering a unique natural sound. "Bamboo music has become ...

How many of Kerala’s many musical instruments are made out of bamboo? The flute, which is a part of the classical music tradition in India, is the most popular bamboo musical instrument in the country ...

A Canadian virtuoso flutist says that his priceless collection of flutes was destroyed by U.S. customs officials who mistook the instruments for worthless bamboo. "When my baggage didn't arrive, I ...

This is the seventh ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...