The flute belongs to the type of bamboo in the octave

The flute belongs to the bamboo type of the eight notes.

The bamboo used for the flute basically undergoes the processes of cutting, lacquering, drilling, sound proofing, winding, and engraving after it is dried. A special feature of the flute is that it is often inscribed with a Tang poem and the name of the maker on the body of the flute.

The bamboo flute is made of a bamboo tube, which is hollowed into an inner chamber and cylindrical in shape, with one blow hole, one membrane hole, six tone holes, two holes for the base tone and two holes for the auxiliary tone.

There are many kinds of materials used to make bamboo flutes, among which there are many kinds of bamboo, such as herb bamboo, bitter bamboo, purple bamboo, white bamboo, Xiangfei bamboo and so on. And there are many other materials for flutes, like mahogany, sandalwood, ivory, serpentine jade, silver, resin synthetic materials, copper and iron.

Expanded Information

Batong is a kind of traditional Chinese instrumental blowing music. Originally the earliest scientific classification of musical instruments in Chinese history, the Western Zhou Dynasty has been the then musical instruments according to the production of materials, divided into gold (bells, bells, cymbals), stone (chimes), silk (qin, serpentine), bamboo (xiao, 碾), Lagenaria (sheng, yu), soil (ocarina, fou), leather (rattle, thunder drums), wood (percussion, Kei) eight categories.

Folk "eight tones":

The eight tones of Shanxi Wutaishan area, the instruments used are pipes, suona, sea flute, sheng, plum flute, xiao, drums, drums, small drums, large cymbals, small cymbals, gongs, gongs, and so on.

The Longlin Banyin Band of Guangxi Zhuang, which uses eight instruments***, is: a pair of horizontal xiao (flutes), a pair of gaohu and erhu, a pair of small sanxian strings, and a pair of gongs, drums and cymbals.

Nanning City, Yongning Zhuang eight tones, on the other hand, mainly consists of a large suona, a small suona, a five-hole flute, gongs, drums, cymbals, and Zhuang music drums.

The Hainan Banyin, popular in the Hainan area, originates from Chaozhou music and is named after the use of eight types of instruments, namely: strings (erhu, coconut hu), qin (yueqin, yangqin, sanxian), flute (suona), pipes (long and short pipes), xiao (horizontal xiao, straight xiao, hole xiao), gongs, drums, cymbals, etc. The Hainan Banyin, popular in the Hainan area, consists of a large suona, small suona, five-hole flute, gongs, drums and cymbals.

The Yi Banyin uses a pair of erhu, a pair of ring xiao (non-film flute), and a pair of cow horn hu, five commercials (small gongs), drums and cymbals, etc. The Gelao Banyin, also known as the Eight Immortals, uses a pair of erhu, a pair of transverse xiao (flute), and a pair of five commercials, gongs, drums and cymbals, etc.

The Yi Banyin is also called the Eight Immortals.