Bamboo musical instruments

Bamboos natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments.

Overview

Bamboo has been used to create a variety of instruments including flutes, mouth organs, saxophones, trumpets, drums, xylophones.

Flutes

There are numerous types of bamboo flutes made all over the world, such as the ''dizi'', ''xiao'', ''shakuhachi'', '' palendag'' and '' jinghu''. In the Indian subcontinent, it is a very popular and highly respected musical instrument, available even to the poorest and the choice of many highly venerated maestros of classical music. It is known and revered above all as the divine flute forever associated with Lord Krishna, who is always portrayed holding a ''bansuri'' in sculptures and paintings. Four of the instruments used in Polynesia for traditional hula are made of bamboo: nose flute, rattle, stamping pipes and the jaw harp. Bamboo may be used in the construction of the Australian didgeridoo instead of the more traditional eucalyptus wood.

Other bamboo instruments

In Indonesia and the Philippines, bamboo has been used for making various kinds of musical instruments, including the '' kolintang'', '' angklung'' and '' bumbong''.
Bamboo is also used to make slit drums. Traditional Philippine '' banda kawayan'' (bamboo bands) use a variety of bamboo musical instruments, including the marimba, ''angklung'', panpipes and ''bumbong'', as well as bamboo versions of western instruments, such as clarinets, saxophones, and tubas. The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ in the Philippines has pipes made of bamboo culms. The modern amplified string instrument, the Chapman stick, is also constructed using bamboo. The '' khene'' (also spelled ''khaen'', ''kaen'' and ''khen''; Lao: ແຄນ, th, แคน) is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown, creating a sound similar to that of the cello. In the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, the '' valiha'', a long tube zither made of a single bamboo stalk, is considered the national instrument.

Bamboo has also recently been used for the manufacture of guitars and ukuleles. Bamboo Ukuleles are constructed of solid cross laminated bamboo strips not plywood. The bamboo solid wood strips are similar to bamboo manufactured flooring.

Gallery

File:Shakuhachi-2.png, Top and bottom-side views of a shakuhachi, end-blown bamboo flutes from Japan
File:টকা বাদ্য.JPG, Toka, bamoo clapper, Assam, Nepal
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Buisciter van bamboe TMnr 1027-5.jpg, Bamboo tanggetang tube zither, Sumatra
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Buisciter van bamboe TMnr 15-410.jpg, Bamboo tube-zither drum
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Buisciter met één snaar TMnr 1330-130.jpg, Bamboo tube-zither drum
File:Agung a Tamlang.jpg, Bamboo gong or slit drum, Agung a tamlang, Philippines
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Spleettrom van bamboe TMnr 15-415.jpg, Indonesian slit drum
File:Alat Musik Sasando 2.jpg, Sasando tube zither
File:Chinese half-tube bamboo zithers.jpg, Bamboo half-tube zithers
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Dubbel enkelriet ('dubbel-klarinet') van bamboe TMnr 4296-5a.jpg, Double-reed clarinet, North Africa
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Dubbel enkelriet (klarinet) van bamboe TMnr 3492-4.jpg, Magruna double reed clarinet, Libya
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Trompet van bamboe TMnr 2236-1.jpg, Bamboo trumpet, Sulawesi, Indonesia
File:Siku (09).jpg, Siku, Pan pipes, Bolivia or Peru, Andes Mountains
File:PNG Pipes QM r.jpg, Pan pipes, New Ireland Province, Queensland, Australia
File:Maultrom 2a.jpg, bamboo Jew's Harp
File:Mukkuri.jpg, Ainu Jew's Harpo
File:Nusa-Dua Bali Indonesia Xylophone-player-01.jpg, Bali Indonesia Xylophone-player, photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas
File:Bala player.jpg, Bala, African xylophone
File:Boo I.jpg, Bamboo marimba, one of the instruments created by Harry Partch
File:Severalbambooflutes.jpg, bamboo flutes
File:Bansuri bamboo flute 23inch.jpg, Bansuri, Indian Subcontinent
File:Thổi sáo.jpg, Sáo, Vietnamese flute
File:Angklung-arumba.jpg, Angklung, Indonesia
File:Angklung-kolintang.jpg, Kolintang xylophone and angklung, Indonesia
File:Bamboo organ of Las Piñas I (cropped).jpg, Bamboo organ, Saint Joseph Parish Church, Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippine
File:Saxos de bambú por Angel Sampedro del Río, luthier argentino.jpg, Bamboo saxophone, Argentina
File:Khenesarong.jpg, Khene, mouth organ, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
File:Chinese flutes circa 1900.JPG, Sheng mouth organ, China
File:Miao musicians.jpg, Lusheng mouth organ
File:Ploong.jpg, Ploong, a musical instrument of the Mru people, Bangladesh
File:Jinghu.jpg, Jinghu, Chinese bowed string instrument
File:Agustinus Sasundu Maestro Musik Tiup Bambu Indonesia.jpg, Musician Agustinus Sasundu of Sangihe, with a bamboo wind instrument

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