VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese bamboo flute has long been one of the most popular wind instruments, containing the essence of Vietnamese music. The moody sound it produces has signified the ...

GUIYANG — Each day after completing her homework during the summer vacation, Xia Meng, a student at Yinshan ethnic primary school, devotes most of her time to practicing the bamboo flute. Just a month ...

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 ...

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 ...

A soil path, of over 10km in length, slippery and steep, stretches from the centre of Muong Dang Commune, Muong Ang District, northern province of Dien Bien, to Chan II Village – home to 64 families ...

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 ...

Liu Zesong, inheritor of the Yuping bamboo flute making craft, blows a flute he made in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 29, 2018. As a traditional Chinese ...

A Canadian flutist has been left baffled and distraught after U.S. customs agents decided to destroy his traditional, handcrafted Middle Eastern bamboo flutes. "I am still waiting for that answer," ...

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 ...