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A variation, the 'Fangufangu' nose flute of the island of Tonga is made with intact node walls at both ends of the bamboo tube, with the nostril holes on the side in front of the nodes (along with side finger holes) and a hole in the middle of the tube, acting as a vent hole, and taking the place of the open distal end. Thus the 'Fangufangu ...
End-blown flute: Xiao (end-blown vertical bamboo flute) Gudi, an ancient vertical flute made from the bones of large birds; Paixiao (pan pipes with distinctive notched or curved blowholes to allow for greater expression) Xun (clay globular flute) (Uyghur and Mongolian minorities also play a version of the Turkish ney.) Fipple flutes:
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 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 ...
A kalaleng is a nose flute made from bamboo from the Philippines. Tongali . Usually around two feet in length a kalaleng has holes cut in the side, to be stopped by the fingers producing the notes. The player closes one nostril with a bit of cotton, then forces the air from the other into a small hole cut in the end of the tube.
Hanyu Pinyin Bopomofo Tong-yong Wade– Giles MPS II Yale EFEO Lessing –Othmer Gwoyeu Romatzyh IPA Note Tone 1 Tone 2 Tone 3 Tone 4 a: ㄚ: a: a: a: a: a: a: a: ar: aa: ah: a: ai
Zhou Fang's fame spread abroad. In the late Zhenyuan period, envoys and merchants from the Silla Kingdom (on the present-day Korean Peninsula) in the Tang dynasty purchased dozens of works of Zhou Fang at high prices in Yangzhou and other places and transported them back to their own country.
A Folktale of the Four Dragons 四龙传说 I for Flute and String Quartet (2012) Earth: Song Cycle for Soprano, Bass-baritone and Sextet (2012) Tao 道 for sheng and violoncello (2009–10) Images of 7 Flowers ANNETTE Suite 花之印象 for Organ (2006) Maroon 棕栗色 for Sextet (2005–06) Larkspur 飞燕草 for Flute, Viola and Harp (2004)