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 ...

Toh's love for the Chinese bamboo flute began in elementary school when his elder brother joined the Chinese orchestra in middle school to learn to play the musical instrument.[File photo] When Gill ...

Adelo Caberte, president of the United Bohol Bamboo Advocates Inc., holds one of his handcrafted bamboo pan flutes at his garden in Bohol, where he grows about 50 bamboo species and develops ...

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 ...

Craftspeople tune bamboo flutes during a bamboo flute making contest held at Zijing Village of Zhongtai Subdistrict in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 18, 2019. More than 30 ...

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 remains of a bamboo flute and over 300 wooden tablets with inscriptions from the ancient Baekje Kingdom (18 B.C.-A.D. 660) have been unearthed at an excavation site in the village of Gwanbuk-ri in ...

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," ...

Amidst the cacophony of the fairground, the sound of the flute came floating in the air. An elderly man was seen immersed in playing the bansuri (flute). He sat on a mat, with his craft — bamboo ...