A soil path, of over 10km in length, slippery and steep, stretches from the centre of Muong Dang Commune, Muong Ang District, northern province of Dien Bien, to Chan II Village – home to 64 families ...

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 ...

INCHEON ― Every winter, Lee Jung-dae, a “daegeum” or traditional transverse bamboo flute maker, wanders around bamboo groves in the southern part of the nation to find the finest materials for making ...

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 ...

Flautist Marselus Selu has started a music collective on the island of Flores to foster traditional wind instruments made from native bamboo. The 64-year-old taught himself to build and play the ...

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 ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Amidst the cacophony of the fairground, the sound of the flute came floating in the air. An elderly man was seen immersed in playing the bansuri (flute). He sat on a mat, with his craft — bamboo ...

In the village of Sreemoddi under Cumilla's Homna upazila, the melodious craft of bamboo flute-making has quietly persisted for generations. Around 40 families are engaged in this time-honoured ...

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, ...