The ensemble is conducted by a drummer, and often includes voice, bamboo flute, xylophone, and stringed instruments. The most well-known gamelan ensembles are those from the islands of Java and Bali.

Professor Heather MacLachlan is director of the University of Dayton’s Javanese Gamelan Ensemble ... that they brought their bamboo flutes and in some cases very heavy gongs.” The University purchased ...

What makes Balinese gamelan so interesting is its diversity of instruments—metallophones, gongs, flutes, and drums. Each ...

Gilbert Ramos (left) also trains members of the Biñan Kawayan Music Ensemble More than a ... not only by playing but by crafting bamboo musical instruments (BMI), as well. Members of the band ...

Members of a gamelan ensemble play bronze or bamboo instruments, each repeating a variant of a melody within a unique framework of scales, at different tempos, creating a song made of intricate ...

These are two of the most common bamboo instruments: The dizi is a bamboo ... The xiao has often been used by folk music ensembles and to accompany Chinese opera performances.

A bamboo flute is a vertical notched tube without a membrane hole. It can be used not only as an ensemble instrument with the guqin or used in traditional silk and bamboo bands, but can also be ...

As the instrument strings are traditionally made from silk and the flutes are made from bamboo, Sizhu (silk and bamboo) refers to traditional Chinese chamber music ensembles made up of stringed ...

A woodwind quintet, consisting of a flute, oboe, French horn, bassoon and clarinet, plays at the Beaverton Wind Ensemble's May 22 ... lead attendees in using a bamboo brush and painting with ...