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Bawu (transverse free-reed flute) Hulusi (vertical gourd free-reed flute normally with one or two drone pipes) Chinese flutes are generally made from bamboo (see bamboo flutes) and belong to the bamboo classification of Chinese music, although they can be (and have been) made of other materials such as jade. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The dizi is also a popular instrument among the Chinese people as it is simple to make and easy to carry. [a] Most dizi are made of bamboo, which explains why dizi are sometimes known by simple names such as Chinese bamboo flute. However, "bamboo" is perhaps more of a Chinese instrument classification like "woodwind" in the West.
Chinese folk flute music are folk songs written to tell the traditions and tales of various tribes in China, around the 12th century. They were played mostly on wooden flutes , and thus the pieces that have survived till today are written in D, which is the key these early flutes were made in.
The use of xun in the Chinese history was found mainly in the performance of palace music. [5] However, the sound of xun is also associated as the symbol of respectable hermits, lady in sorrow, or heroes at the end of their strength, and is considered the best instrument to perform a heartbreaking tone, or to make solemn music within the royal ...
The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi (or ch'ih) in the 9th century b.c. and the yüeh in the 8th century b.c. [3] Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute ...
In Chinese mythology, Ling Lun is said to have created bamboo flutes which made the sounds of many birds, including the mythical phoenix. "In this way, Ling Lun invented the five notes of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which is equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in numbered musical notation or do, re, mi, sol, and la in western solfeggio) and the eight sounds ...
The hulusi (simplified Chinese: 葫 芦 丝; traditional Chinese: 葫蘆絲; pinyin: húlúsī), also known as the cucurbit flute [1] and the gourd flute, [2] is a free reed wind instrument from China, Vietnam, and the Shan State, played also by the indigenous people of Assam.
The xiāo is a very ancient Chinese instrument usually thought to have developed from a simple end-blown flute used by the Qiang people of Southwest China in ancient period. In the oral traditions of the Xiao, practitioners and poets say its sound resembles the sweetness of the Phoenix's call, the king of birds in Chinese belief. [2]