If you are planning to learn a wind instrument, beginning with a flute will not be a bad idea. Though it is not too easy to learn a flute, the soothing sound of this instrument has the power of making ...

Students play bamboo flutes at Yinshan ethnic primary school in Yuping county, Guizhou province, on Aug 7. [Photo/Xinhua] GUIYANG — Each day after completing her homework during the summer vacation, ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese bamboo flute has long been one of the most popular wind instruments, containing the essence of Vietnamese music. The moody sound it produces has signified the ...

Here is an interesting Korean craft class that teaches how to make danso, a Korean traditional bamboo flute. The class is open for all ages from elementary students to tourists form overseas and last ...

When I first watched flute maestro and NAPA faculty member Ustad Salamat Hussain performing raga chandrakauns as he went on to set the mood of not only the event but the entire environment together ...

Traditional music is facing a decline since imported foreign sounds, right through from rock to hip-hop, are becoming ever more popular, but one man is slowly trying to reverse the trend. Bui Cong ...

THE SHAKUHACHI MANUAL FOR LEARNING, Revised Edition, by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. Printed Matter Press, 2008, 202 pp. with many illustrations, musical notations, and an attached CD of practice ...

The large bamboo flute called daegeum, used in traditional Korean music, is uniquely capable of producing a wide range of listening experiences from a single ancient woodwind instrument. Daegeum, a ...

GUIYANG — Each day after completing her homework during the summer vacation, Xia Meng, a student at Yinshan ethnic primary school, devotes most of her time to practicing the bamboo flute. Just a month ...