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    end-blown flute. It is generally made of bamboo. It is also sometimes called dòngxiāo (洞箫; 洞簫), dòng meaning "hole." An ancient name for the xiāo is shùzhúdí...
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  • culture Xiao (flute) (Chinese: 箫), a Chinese end-blown flute Xiao (rank) (Chinese: 校), a rank used for field officers in the Chinese military Xiao County...
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    membrane)[citation needed] End-blown flute: Xiao (end-blown vertical bamboo flute) Gudi, an ancient vertical flute made from the bones of large birds Paixiao...
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    the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th–11th centuries BC, followed by the...
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    the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by...
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    Danso (category End-blown flutes)
    duǎnxiāo; lit. 'short xiao'). The Korean name is the transliteration of the Chinese one, a short variant of the xiao. The flute has four finger holes...
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    The end-blown flute (also called an edge-blown flute or rim-blown flute) is a woodwind instrument played by directing an airstream against the sharp edge...
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    xylophone, the xidei. The transverse flute called the pin xiao (dizi in Mandarin, 品簫 or 品仔) and the oboe-like aiya (噯仔) or xiao are sometimes added in outdoor...
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  • Western concert flute Fife Alto flute Bass flute Contra-alto flute Contrabass flute Subcontrabass flute Double contrabass flute Hyperbass flute Bansuri (India)...
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  • well. His 2009 release, Liverpool: Re-imagining The Beatles, made with Xiao flute master Gary Stroutsos pays homage to the music of The Beatles. 1983 Heartsounds...
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    Dizi (instrument) (category Side-blown flutes)
    The dizi is not the only bamboo flute of China. Other Chinese bamboo wind instruments include the vertical end-blown xiao and the koudi. Recently, archaeologists...
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    (进贤冠) to denominate educational status. jieze (介帻), as worn by a ceramic xiao-flute player. Jieze worn by man (left) Ornaments and jewelries, such as rings...
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    parades, Taoist priests often organize musical instruments such as sheng, Xiao, flute, silk, gongs and drums to cheer up the craftsmen. In normal times, craftsmen...
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    traditional Chinese folk ballads. It sung by a woman accompanied by a xiao flute and a pipa, as well as other traditional instruments. The music is sung...
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    Jam Hsiao (redirect from Jam Xiao)
    Hsiao Ching-teng (simplified Chinese: 萧敬腾; traditional Chinese: 蕭敬騰; pinyin: Xiāo Jìngténg; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siau Kèng-thêng, born 30 March 1987) is a Taiwanese...
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    Pipa, Sanxian and Dulcimer are often played as subsidiary instruments; Xiao, Flute and Zhonghu are also included in the music. Binbin Tune was begun by...
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    bamboo flute Xiāo (簫) – End-blown flute Páixiāo (simplified Chinese: 排箫; traditional Chinese: 排簫) – Pan pipes Chí (篪) – Ancient Chinese flute Zhù (柷)...
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    the court was dominated by two men, Xiao Ge and Xiao Ala. Xiao Ala was the son of Xiao Xiaomu and part of Xiao Noujin's extended family. He was a close...
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  • Xiaoxi (Mandarin), Vivian Lu (English), Hiroko Watanabe (Japanese) as Verta (Xiao Qing) Wai Wai as the Masked Man Wei Chao (Mandarin), Jason Jin (English)...
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    Shakuhachi (category End-blown flutes)
    (普化尺八). A bamboo flute known as the kodai shakuhachi (古代尺八, ancient shakuhachi) or gagaku shakuhachi (雅楽尺八) was derived from the Chinese xiao in the Nara period...
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  • Xiao Juan and Residents From the Valley (小娟和山谷里的居民) is a Chinese folk band founded in 1998, with Wang Xiujuan (artist name Xiao Juan) as lead singer....
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    not play with a symmetrical embouchure. The end-blown xiao, kaval, shakuhachi and hocchiku flutes demand especially difficult embouchures, sometimes requiring...
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    Paixiao (redirect from Pai xiao)
    排簫; simplified: 排箫; pinyin: páixiāo; also pái xiāo) is a Chinese wind instrument, a form of pan flute. A major difference between the Chinese Paixiao...
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    modern humans has been found in the Swabian Jura, including 42,000-year-old flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found, the 40,000-year-old...
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    Jiahu (section Flutes)
    ISBN 978-1-880-46403-8. Juzhong, Z., Xiao, X., and Lee, Y.K., 2004, "The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone flutes." Antiquity 78(302): 769-779...
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    name 鬼吹簫 (Guĭ chuī xiāo) – approximate pronunciation "gwé chwé siaaow" – meaning ghost flute (literally ghost-blown flute) / "xiao of the spirits", although...
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  • Retrieved 21 September 2023. Ao, Hong; Dekkers, Mark J.; Wei, Qi; Qiang, Xiaoke; Xiao, Guoqiao (15 August 2013). "New evidence for early presence of hominids in...
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    tortoises, and a pair of fluted columns. Visited and photographed by Victor Segalen in 1917, the ensemble of the Tomb of Xiao Xiu (with his name better...
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  • by Liu Qing and Liu Hong. He carries around two possessions: a bamboo flute ('xiao') and a sword ('jian'), hence his name. At first, he pretends he does...
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  • original screenplay written by Zhou Mo, and later developed into a novel by Xiao Lianmao. Starring Wu Jinyan, Charmaine Sheh, Qin Lan, Nie Yuan, Tan Zhuo...
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