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 ...

There was no stage, no ticket booth, no program. Just a musician, her flutes, and a public square transformed into a concert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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," ...