bamboo flute
Hollow grass instrument
A bamboo flute is a wind instrument made from hollow bamboo stems, found across many musical traditions—Chinese dizi, Japanese shakuhachi, Indian bansuri, and Andean quena among them.
The term sometimes appears in meditation or ambient music contexts, evoking tranquility: The spa played gentle bamboo flute music.
- recorderEnd-blown wooden flute
- embouchureWind player's mouth position
- blowingMoving air forcefully
- pentatonicScale of five tones
- rice paperThin edible Asian wrapper
fingering · breath control · tonguing · woodwind · bore · timbre · ocarina · panpipes · meditation · mountain air · Asian · shepherd · traditional · whistle · finger holes · breath · pastoral · folk
- bamboovivax, robusta, multiplex
- Zen artszazen, zen garden, zen gardens, sumi-e, ikebana
- Chinese Windschi
- suling
- flutespiccolo, recorder, fife, tin whistle, penny whistle
- wind instrumentsclarinet, oboe, trumpet, bassoon, saxophone