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Bamboo Musical Instruments
Bamboos natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments. In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such as flutes, and devices like xylophones and organs, which require resonating sections. In some traditional instruments bamboo is the primary material, while others combine bamboo with other materials such as wood and leather. Overview Bamboo has been used to create a variety of instruments including flutes, mouth organs, saxophones, trumpets, drums and xylophones. Flutes :''See Bamboo 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 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamboo Wind Instruments
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in the case of ''Dendrocalamus sinicus'' having individual stalks ( culms) reaching a length of , up to in thickness and a weight of up to . The internodes of bamboos can also be of great length. '' Kinabaluchloa wrayi'' has internodes up to in length. and ''Arthrostylidium schomburgkii'' has internodes up to in length, exceeded in length only by papyrus. By contrast, the stalks of the tiny bamboo ''Raddiella vanessiae'' of the savannas of French Guiana measure only in length by about in width. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, but it most likely comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada. In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous Drone (music), drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia at least 1,000 years ago, and is now in use around the world, though still most strongly associated with Indigenous Australian music. In the Yolŋu languages of the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land the name for the instrument is the yiḏaki, or more recently by some, mandapul. In the Bininj Gun-Wok, Bininj Kunwok language of West Arnhem Land it is known as mako (pronounced, and sometimes spelt, as mago). A didgeridoo is usually cylindrical or Cone (geometry), conical, and can measure anywhere from long. Most are around long. Generally, the longer the instrument, the lower its pitch or key. Flared instruments play a higher pitch than unflared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khene
The ''khaen'' (; spelled "Khaen", "Kaen", "Kehn" or "Ken" in English; , ; , , ; , ; – ''Ken''; Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ''khèn'' or ''kheng'') is a Lao mouth organ whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown. The khaen is the national instrument of Laos. The khene music is an integral part of Lao life that promotes family and social cohesion and it was inscribed in 2017 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity''.'' It is used among the ethnic Lao Isan and Some tai ethnic groups such as Tai dam In north Vietnam and Lao population of the province of Stung Treng and is used in ''lakhon ken'', a Cambodian dance drama genre that features the ''khaen'' as the main instrument In Vietnam, this instrument is used among the Tai peoples and the Muong people. The khaen uses a Free reed aerophone, free reed made of brass and/or silver. It is related to We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Piñas Bamboo Organ
The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ in St. Joseph Parish Church, Las Piñas, St. Joseph Parish Church in Las Piñas, Philippines, is a 19th-century Organ (music)#Chamber organ, church organ. It is known for its unique pipe organ, organ pipes; of its 1031 pipes, 902 are made of bamboo. It was completed after six years of work in 1824 by Father Diego Cera, the builder of the town's stone church and its first resident Catholic parish priest."Simbahan ng Las Piñas" National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines. Retrieved on 2013-04-21. After age and numerous disasters had rendered the musical instrument unplayable for a long time, in 1972, the national government and the local community joined together to have the organ shipped to Germany for restoration. For its anticipated return in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
