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 ...

From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern ... are wind instruments with a bottle gourd for a base and bamboo pipes with finger holes used to play notes.

Bamboo is fast-growing, widely available and versatile, which makes it a useful material for everything from fabric to houses. It has long been a popular material for making musical instruments in ...

Guwahati: Flute makers of the city are witnessing a significant surge in demand for their handcrafted instruments as music ...

The Cho Ro ethnic group (also called the Châu Ro or Giơ Ro) numbers about 30,000 people, who live mainly in Dong Nai, Binh ...

dance music and for meditation. The shakuhachi is a wind instrument from Japan. A traditional shakuhachi is made from bamboo and played by blowing down one end, like a recorder. A musician uses ...

If all artifacts created to make music and sing were accounted for, there could be countless instruments that were older, as ...

A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented ... Among the unorthodox materials he used to create his instruments were brass artillery shells, bamboo, hubcaps and the carefully ...

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 instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra ...