Pages tagged with Bamboo Instruments

There are over 2000 different verities of bamboo plant in the world. This can be grown as a privacy screen outside your home or in a container garden that gives unique and exotic look. Bamboo is a grass, a fairly simple plant but highly evolved and versatile. Bamboo blooms in every ye...

Bamboo is a common name for more than 40 genera and about 480 species of perennial, woody, usually shrubby or treelike plants of the grass family. They belong to the scientific family of Poaceae, (formerly Gramineae).

Archaeological evidence shows that humans have depended on the giant grass known as bamboo since the Stone Age. In Asia today, bamboo is an unequalled source of timber, animal fodder, and paper, as well as used as a natural curative for a number of diseases. And much of bamboo’s f...

In the various regions of the Philippines are found a variety of bamboo instruments. These produce different sounds depending on the manner the instrument is played, that is, whether, blown, struck, or plucked.