Since debuting in 2016, Yoshimi Tsujimoto has been promoting shakuhachi to a global audience through her popular YouTube channel, performing flute covers of famous songs. Tsujimoto’s online fame has ...

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 ...

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 water town of Bacheng will play host to the first China bamboo flute festival on June 22. The bamboo flute is believed to have a cleansing effect on the soul in traditional Chinese musical theory.

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 ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi. “I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

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 ...

Few Chinese people have heard of the yue, an ancient wind instrument that belonged to the flute family. However, this flute, the name of which is pronounced the same as the word for "music" in Chinese ...