The large bamboo flute called daegeum, used in traditional Korean music, is uniquely capable of producing a wide range of listening experiences from a single ancient woodwind instrument. Daegeum, a ...

If you are planning to learn a wind instrument, beginning with a flute will not be a bad idea. Though it is not too easy to learn a flute, the soothing sound of this instrument has the power of making ...

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 ...

An artisan blows a newly-made Yuping bamboo flute at a workshop in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 23, 2019. As a traditional Chinese musical instrument, ...

The musical performance of Shen Yingbiao and Chen Chengbo — Memories of the Past at Red Cliff — captivated the audience on Saturday evening during a concert in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. They have ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi. “I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

Bamboo artist Rajiv VK first heard the tongali, a nose flute instrument from the Philippines, in February 2019, when he was attending a workshop Feeling Through Bamboo Music, organised by National ...