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Pinjakan

A windmill made of the bamboo made in Bali. When a windmill moves, a device doll works. That plays beautiful sound.





Namizutsu Rain Stick

A thorn was driven into the spiral-shaped in the bamboo, and a pebble was put. When it is slanted, with a pebble to the thorn, it falls slowly, rain sound and a sound like a wave.





Valiha

A tube zither which consists of steel strings stretched along a length of bamboo. It is Madagascar's most popular instrument.





Pandor

A frying pan was tuned, and an instrument was done. That tone is very clear.





Taiko

It is a Japanese traditional percussion instrument. The horse skin membrane is glued to the body.





Pan Flute

It is the instrument which the bamboo pipe that the bottom was closed. It is set up lengthwise, and the top end of the pipe is hit, and breath is blown inside the pipe. It is the instrument of east Europe.





Takebora

It is bamboo tongues. A lip is hit, by using the vibration of the lip. Volume is loud, and has a deep tone.





Takebera

The spatula of two sheets of bamboos is hit. That sound has sharp and hard. The rhythm that more than one player is different is cut.





Balingbing

It has the bottom part of the pipe with one hand, and a tip has already been driven into one wrist. It make a sound because of the crack in the center. It is the instrument being used in the Philippines.





Te-Marimba

The keyboard of the bamboo marimba was removed with this instrument. It has that instrument in the hand, and it is driven into the floor and the wall. Because a player can move freely, it is the instrument whose performance is high.





Stamp or Stamping-Tube

Only the knot of the extreme bottom part of the bamboo pipe is left. That bamboo is dropped vertically to the ground and the top of the board, and driven, and sound is made.





Slittam

A percussion instrument made of madake. The pitch can be tuned by adjusting the length of the slit which is cut vertically on the bamboo, while leaving the bamboo joint on both ends. In Indonesia it is used as a door chime.





Jegog

This instrument was born on Bali Island western Negara. Jegog of the low tone become a diameter 18cm and length 3.3m most, too.





Angklung

This instrument is made of two bamboo pipes tuned in one octave. By shaking it like a hand bell in onefs hand, the instrument makes a beautiful bell-like sound.





@Gender

A melody instrument used in gamelan ensembles. Keyboard made of bronze is arranged like a xylophone, and a musical scale is made, and struck with stick of the tree, and it plays. Resonator of the bamboo is tuned, and it is under the keyboard.





Super Maui

It is struck with stick that a sponge pushed the opening of the Madake of about a diameter 10cm, and sound is taken out. A sound like a Taiko is characteristics.





Maui Marimba

This instrument is also made from madake and played by striking the opening of the bamboo with a sponge tied on to a stick. A similar instrument can be found in the South Pacific region.





Take-Marimba Bass

It is the instrument which has structure Bamboo Marimba. It has the range of 2 octaves, and a low tone can be sounded more than a Bamboo Marimba.





Take-Marimba

Makoto Yabuki created original keyboard bamboo instrument in 1980. This instrument which has the range of 4 octaves can make a sound the beautiful sound which has a lingering sound very much.





Shou

It is the wind instrument used to play a chord with Japanese court music. It was conveyed from China to Japan in the Nara Period. 17 bamboo pipes are being used for Shou.





Noukan

A kind of the Japanese traditional wind instrument. It is a flute for the Noh play. There is 7 hole in about the length 39cm and the number of finger holes. A very sharp tone can be make a sound, and Bamboo Orchestra is being used for that sound effectively.





Shinobue

A Japanese traditional bamboo flute. It is made from Shinodake, which is a slender bamboo. The most basic melody instrument for Japanese folk entertainment. Bamboo Marimba – Makoto Yabuki created this original keyboard bamboo instrument in 1980. It has a range of 4 octaves and can make a beautiful lingering sound.





Shakuhachi

This is a traditional Japanese vertical flute. It has its origin in the ancient Huke Shakuhachi. The Shakuhachi is made of madake, a long-jointed bamboo, and measures about 55cm (21.6in) long.

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