Bamboo flute
The bamboo flute is an old musical instrument developed in Asia. Flutes made history in records and artworks starting in the Zhou dynasty. The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan and hsio in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi in the 9th century b.c. and the yüeh in the 8th century b.c. Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute, and was made from bamboo. The Chinese have a word, zhudi, which literally means "bamboo flute."
The cross flute was "the outstanding wind instrument of ancient India," according to Curt Sachs. He said that religious artwork depicting "celestial music" instruments was linked to music with an "aristocratic character." The Indian bamboo cross flute, Bansuri, was sacred to Krishna, and he is depicted in Hindu art with the instrument. In India, the cross flute appeared in reliefs from the 1st century a.d. at Sanchi and Amaravati from the 2nd-4th centuries a.d.
In the modern age, bamboo flutes are common in places with ready access to bamboo, including Asia, South and Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa.
See: Chinese flutes
End blown flute mouthpieces
List of bamboo flutes, cane flutes, reed flutes
This list is intended to show flutes made of bamboo. It excludes pan flutes or panpipes, and flutes and whistles that don't have finger positions to change notes. It also excludes pipes that use reeds to produce the sound. Bamboo is a grass, and some "cane" or "reed" flutes may get listed here, as long as the plant is being used for a tube that is blown into or across to create noise. Types of flutes include transverse flutes, end-blown flutes and Nose flutes. Fipple flutes, also called duct flutes, may be added to the list as well, as long as they are bamboo-based instruments. The bamboo variant may be added for instruments that include wood and bamboo versions.| Name in English | Name in other language | Place / Region | Picture | Method of sounding | Description | ||
| Atenteben | Ghana | - | - | ||||
| Bansuri | Bangladesh | ||||||
| Bansuri | India | ||||||
| Bām̐surī | China | ||||||
| Daegeum | Korea | ||||||
| Dangjeok or Jeok | Korea | file:Jeok.jpg|thumb|200px|center | Notched flute | ||||
| Danso | Korea | ||||||
| Donali | دونَلی | Iran | |||||
| Dongdi | China | ||||||
| Fijian nose flute | Viti Levu | Nose flute | This nasal flute is made from a section of bamboo, pierced with nine holes. The entire surface is decorated with geometric patterns of different shapes, forming several registers in the vertical direction. To play the flute, a hole must be applied against one nostril while the other is blocked by the fingers. | ||||
| Floghera | Greece | rim-blown | End-blown bamboo flute without a fipple, used in Greek folk music. Played by directing a narrow air stream against its sharp, open upper end. It typically has seven finger holes. | ||||
| Friscolettu | Sicily | fipple | Seven holes on the front, two in the back | ||||
| Hotchiku | 法竹 | Japan | |||||
| Gasbah | الڨصبة, Taghanimt | Maghreb | oblique | Oblique flutes are played with the musician be holding the flute at an angle to the mouth, blowing across a bevel cut in the end. Similar to Ney. | |||
| Garau-nai | Uzbekistan, Tajikistan | ||||||
| India nose-flute bansuri | West Bengal | Fipple | In 1799, artist Frans Balthazar Solvyns depicted an end-blown flute, called Bansuri, being played nasally. | ||||
| Ji | Korea | ||||||
| Junggeum | Korea | File:Jeongak Daegeum.jpg|thumb|200px|center|Top a daegeum, in the middle a junggeum, to the right a piri. | |||||
| Kagurabue | ) | Japan | |||||
| Khloy | Burmese: ပုလွ | Cambodia Myanmar | internal fipple | end-blown duct flute. Mouthhole on bottom of pipe's end, soundhole on flute's bottom. This flute may have as many as 8 fingerholes, plus up to 2 additional thumbholes; the thumbholes offer additional notes. | |||
| Khlui | |||||||
| Nohkan | 能管 | Japan | |||||
| Ney | Iran | ||||||
| Ohe Hano Ihu | Hawaii | ||||||
| Paiwan nose flute | Taiwan | Nose flute | Instrument of the Paiwan people of Taiwan. | ||||
| Palendag | Philippines | ||||||
| Palwei | Burmese: ပလွေ | Myanmar | |||||
| Pinkillu | Peru, Andes Mountains | File:Pinkullo flute.jpg|thumb|200px|center|Pinkillu flute and tinya drum. The musician plays the flute one handed while playing the drum. | |||||
| Quena | Andes | File:Quena01.jpg|thumb|200px|center|Quena, made from American species of bamboos, | Japan | ||||
| Sogeum | Korea | ||||||
| Sompoton | Sabah, Malaysia | Mouth organ | Bamboo mouth organ with gourd of the indigenous Kadazan, Dusun, and Murut peoples of Sabah. | ||||
| Suling | Indonesia | ||||||
| Suling | Papua, New Guinea | ||||||
| Tahitian nose flute | Tahiti | Nose flute | Bamboo nose flute bound with bands of colored coconut fiber. Collected from Tahiti, the Society Islands during Cook's voyages to the Pacific 1768–1780. | ||||
| Tongso | Korea | ||||||
| Turali | Sabah, Malaysia | Nose flute | Bamboo nose flute of the indigenous Kadazan and Dusun peoples of Sabah. | ||||
| Venu | Sanskrit: wikt:वेणु | India | |||||
| Wa | Myanmar | ||||||
| Xiao | China | ||||||
| Xindi | China | ||||||
| Yak | Korea | ||||||
| Yokobue | Japan | ||||||
| Yue | China |