The dizi is a bamboo flute and is widely used in Chinese folk music and opera. The first flutes excavated date back to over 8 ...

With a touch that is both evocative and ethereal, Chaurasia has reawakened the soul of the bansuri, the side-blown ...

and children play with bamboo toys or blow bamboo flutes. As adults, peasants shape the ground with bamboo tools and, in the spring, may enjoy a feast of bamboo shoots. When one's journey is over ...

National Committee on Music (NCM), brought the power of music to Bontoc, Mountain Province, through a series of lectures and ...

John Kaizan Neptune is one of the world's leading players of the shakuhachi, a type of Japanese bamboo flute. He talks about making his own instruments and what the shakuhachi can teach us about life.