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Bamboo's natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for manymusical instruments. In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such as flutes, and devices like xylophones and organs, which require resonating sections. In some traditional instruments bamboo is the primary material, while others combine bamboo with other materials such as wood and leather.
Bamboo has been used to create a variety of instruments including flutes, mouth organs, saxophones, trumpets, drums and xylophones.
There are numerous types ofbamboo flutes made all over the world, such as thedizi,xiao,shakuhachi,palendag andjinghu. In the Indian subcontinent, it is a very popular and highly respected musical instrument, available even to the poorest and the choice of many highly venerated maestros of classical music. It is known and revered above all as the divine flute forever associated withLord Krishna, who is always portrayed holding abansuri in sculptures and paintings. Four of the instruments used inPolynesia for traditionalhula are made of bamboo:nose flute, rattle, stamping pipes and thejaw harp. Bamboo may be used in the construction of the Australiandidgeridoo instead of the more traditionaleucalyptus wood.
In Indonesia and the Philippines, bamboo has been used for making various kinds of musical instruments, including thekolintang,angklung andbumbong.Bamboo is also used to makeslit drums. Traditional Philippine bamboo ensemble use a variety of bamboo musical instruments, including themarimba,angklung,panpipes andbumbong, as well as bamboo versions of western instruments, such asclarinets,saxophones, andtubas.[2] TheLas Piñas Bamboo Organ in the Philippines has pipes made of bamboo culms. The modern amplified string instrument, theChapman stick, is also constructed using bamboo. Thekhene (also spelledkhaen,kaen andkhen;Lao: ແຄນ,Thai:แคน) is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown, creating a sound similar to that of the cello. In theIndian Ocean island of Madagascar, thevaliha, a long tube zither made of a single bamboo stalk, is considered the national instrument.
Bamboo has also recently been used for the manufacture of guitars andukuleles. Bamboo Ukuleles are constructed of solid cross laminated bamboo strips not plywood. The bamboo solid wood strips are similar to bamboo manufactured flooring.
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