Bamboo's 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.
Wind instruments made of bamboo played by students in Talaud, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.An example of a slit drum or scraper from the Philippines known as a kagul by the Maguindanaon people[1]
Bamboo has been used to create a variety of instruments including flutes, mouth organs, saxophones, trumpets, drums and xylophones.
Flutesedit
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 instrumentsedit
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.[2] 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, Thai: 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.
Galleryedit
Top and bottom-side views of a shakuhachi, end-blown bamboo flutes from Japan
Musician Agustinus Sasundu of Sangihe, with a bamboo wind instrument
Referencesedit
^Mercurio, Philip Dominguez (2006). "Traditional Music of the Southern Philippines". PnoyAndTheCity: A center for Kulintang – A home for Pasikings. Retrieved June 12, 2006.
^"Origins and development of bamboo music". bbc.co.uk. 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Bamboo musical instruments news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message Bamboo s 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 Wind instruments made of bamboo played by students in Talaud North Sulawesi Indonesia An example of a slit drum or scraper from the Philippines known as a kagul by the Maguindanaon people 1 Contents 1 Overview 1 1 Flutes 1 2 Other bamboo instruments 2 Gallery 3 ReferencesOverview editBamboo has been used to create a variety of instruments including flutes mouth organs saxophones trumpets drums and xylophones Flutes edit 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 edit 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 2 The Las Pinas 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 Thai aekhn 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 edit nbsp Top and bottom side views of a shakuhachi end blown bamboo flutes from Japan nbsp Toka bamoo clapper Assam Nepal nbsp Bamboo tanggetang tube zither Sumatra nbsp Bamboo tube zither drum nbsp Bamboo tube zither drum nbsp Bamboo gong or slit drum Agung a tamlang Philippines nbsp Indonesian slit drum nbsp Sasando tube zither nbsp Bamboo half tube zithers nbsp Double reed clarinet North Africa nbsp Magruna double reed clarinet Libya nbsp Bamboo trumpet Sulawesi Indonesia nbsp Siku Pan pipes Bolivia or Peru Andes Mountains nbsp Pan pipes New Ireland Province Queensland Australia nbsp bamboo Jew s Harp nbsp Ainu Jew s Harpo nbsp Bali Indonesia Xylophone player photo by CEphoto Uwe Aranas nbsp Bala African xylophone nbsp Bamboo marimba one of the instruments created by Harry Partch nbsp bamboo flutes nbsp Bansuri Indian Subcontinent nbsp Sao Vietnamese flute nbsp Angklung Indonesia nbsp Kolintang xylophone and angklung Indonesia nbsp Bamboo organ Saint Joseph Parish Church Las Pinas Metro Manila Philippine nbsp Bamboo saxophone Argentina nbsp Khene mouth organ Vietnam Cambodia Laos nbsp Sheng mouth organ China nbsp Lusheng mouth organ nbsp Ploong a musical instrument of the Mru people Bangladesh nbsp Jinghu Chinese bowed string instrument nbsp Musician Agustinus Sasundu of Sangihe with a bamboo wind instrumentReferences edit Mercurio Philip Dominguez 2006 Traditional Music of the Southern Philippines PnoyAndTheCity A center for Kulintang A home for Pasikings Retrieved June 12 2006 Origins and development of bamboo music bbc co uk 2011 Retrieved March 27 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bamboo musical instruments amp oldid 1216743015, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
