Bamboo Music History

The origin of the bamboo musical creation, which is based on the view of people's lives around. In places and different countries have their own history when the bamboo used as musical instruments.

Bamboo produces various types of musical instruments either blown or struck. Each place has a unique form of the work of the artist.

In principle, the use of bamboo music is influenced by the myth in ancient cultures, in addition to ceremonial and other traditional performances.

Bamboo music is music that lives in the community were hereditary, maintained as a means of entertainment. Three components affect each of these artists, the music itself and the public audience. While meant to unite perception between artists and the community thinking about joint efforts in developing and preserving traditional music. Making music trasidional as art treasures in the community that more traditional music touches on general commercial sectors.

Bamboo is an ancient material that has been used to produce musical instruments in almost every region of the world. Bamboo instruments create a particular quality and sound that is softer than other types of instruments.

A musical bamboo instrument acts as a transformer, converting the energy from an outside source into a series of sound waves. All sound is the result of vibration. A bamboo flute, for example, vibrates when it is blowing air into stick. Its movement causes the air around it to vibrate in a series of hole vibrations travelling outwards from the stem.

Bamboo can produced a beautiful sound, with appropriate notation created a new musical art form is unique. Musical instruments type as bamboo flute each of which produces a different shape and unique sound in several country.

The people, since ancient times, have been using bamboo to give expression to their art, bamboo music traditionally owned by the tropical countries on several continents, each of which has its own characteristics.

Bamboo music is not inferior to modern music, but basically it into traditional music and we can not see easily. Usually a show at the title at a certain time when there is a cultural event of a country or bamboo musical arts performances.

There are still many traditional artists preserve this music, they held a ceremony or a show at the cultural performance. Even the artists of the world also comes with a bamboo musical collaboration and modern music.

Usefulness Bamboo

Bamboo is both decorative and useful. In many parts of the world it is food, fodder, the primary construction material and is used for making great variety of useful objects from kitchen tools, to paper to dinnerware. The Species Source List contains a listing of the bamboos that are commonly used for furniture, construction, musical instruments and many more things.

- Are used as a tool : :
Age-old after finding a place to eat chopsticks is a tool to help how to take food and fed it. Until now, the use of chopsticks in China mainland and indo china still daily habits.

The first form is still bamboo chopsticks and wooden sticks used to pick up food. After the 14th century, the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, chopsticks have become a popular item on the spoon. Bamboo chopsticks finally rarely used anymore, because people prefer wood.

In many parts of the world, particularly tropical climates where giant bamboos grow as forests, there is a tradition to using bamboos for constructing buildings and other structures such as the bridge shown above. Bamboo bridges are designed to hold up simple suspension load, either by making stack of split bamboo or tied whole culms of sufficiently bamboo together.

This traditional way is still used today, especially in villages that have each other to connected but separated by the river.


- example of the artistic materials
Bamboo construction makes use of the wide variety of building products now available that are made from one of the most versatile and sustainable building materials. For some examples of innovative building design using bamboo and ideas and inspiration on the use of the most versatile, strong and durable.



- bamboo crafts

Bamboo crafts have origin in past and characterize in some countries is cultural legacy. Bamboo crafts for their functional and aesthetic appeal this is an important source of livelihood for the people. They are also easy to work with and hardly require the use of specialized tools or equipment.

A variety of products and items such as furniture and partitions, table mats and floorings, lampshades etc are made. Panels, screens and partitions made out of splitted bamboo, pasted on plywood is another utilitarian item created here split bamboo is so thin and shiny that it looks like ivory.

Tree species that are considered normal with a touch of high art can be very expensive goods and artistic

Bamboo Glance

Bamboo is a lot of plants in tropical areas usually wild grows in the village or woods, is a strong tree, he lived in groups and always grows new shoots at the ripe stem.

This new leaf growth happens during the Spring time has leaf surface a pointed, although not tightly when rub each other blown wind noise yield, the stem round, has a segment, and hollow or solid, but generally hollow.

Bamboo is a belongs of the grass family, from a single stem new shoots that grow to create a new group. Bamboo type is reaching more than 1500 different species, mostly available in the tropics area. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant, Some types can arise new shoots up out of the ground at a rate of over 1 foot per day. It takes a varying number of years (4-15) for different species to reach their maximum size.

The bamboo plant is a very valuable and versatile raw material, it is used for building complete houses, many crafts also use bamboo materials, to create unique appliances and highly valuable. Bamboo can add greenery to your garden during the winter, it can stabilize the soil of embankments and control the worst of erosion problems.

As wood becomes more scarce bamboo construction will hold more and more value outside of the tropical climates where the benefits of its use have been known for centuries.

Unbelievable, but its tensile strength compares to that of steel and therefore bamboo has been used in construction for centuries because bamboo can be harvested and used cheaply and it grows back in lightning speed.

Most bamboos have green canes with green leaves. Some have variegated leaves like white stripes on the leaves. For the most part, variegated leaves are most vibrant when the leaf is young.

For color in the canes – here are some useful qualities to keep in mind :

* Yellow Bamboo


This type of bamboo looks bright, lemon yellow color of the stems that were largely matched in the spring when new buds are exposed to the sun is a beautiful sight. These are among the most powerful cold and bamboo can grow almost anywhere in the United States. Grew up a habit of making good choices when the narrow, colorful screen desired.

* Blue Bamboo

The Blue Bamboo is a rare species have moments in their lives when they are absolutely blue, The spectacular color usually occurs when the plant is putting up its newest canes. Not all countries have this type, this species is only seen in the Himalayas maybe that's why Latin names are also Himalayacalamus hookerianus. The color looks amazing when the surrounding trees grew green with different colors.

Blue bamboo does not reach such heights of yellow bamboo and tend to shoot a little group of, but true or not if the bamboo into the smallest types of bamboo.

Many fans of ornamental plant species to hunt because bamboo is a beautiful blue and unique. By showing them at home will have its own pride as a decoration that brightens the home.



* White Bamboo

One of our new favorites. A beautiful single specimen or anything, with nodding tops, this plant is graceful with a moderate footprint.

White bamboos throw new shoots that are covered with a lot of powder (sometimes called ‘bloom’). When the canes are covered in this powder they appear (convincingly) to be white.






* Black Bamboo

Among the segments of the black bamboo like poles with paint in white color, gloss was evident in the group make it look beautiful bamboo.

Black bamboos usually start off green when they are juvenile. Every season, the new canes emerge green and then turn black. Smaller, younger plants may take a season or two to attain the maturity to change color. Older plants will do it as a matter of course.

The plant has one of the most upright and vertical profiles of each of clumping bamboo, power trunk very tough and hard.

This type is widely used as a unique architecture for the colored stems blackish, maybe that's why we rarely get this kind.