| Bamboo plants are one of the world's most | | | | and most have eight bamboo keys, with certain |
| versatile resources. Bamboo, because of its | | | | instrument having two keys per pitch, slightly |
| strength and flexibility, has been used for | | | | detuned. |
| hundreds of years as a major building material in | | | | Take Marimba |
| countries like Japan and China. But aside from | | | | The first ever take marimba was constructed by |
| furniture building and architecture, bamboo plants | | | | musician and instrument maker Makoto Yabuki in |
| are also used for a wide array of purposes. One | | | | 1980. It is a multi-layered marimba with bamboo |
| of the most interesting areas where bamboo is | | | | keys. It produces a beautiful, lingering sound and |
| used is in the creation of instruments. Because | | | | has typically a range of 4 octaves. |
| bamboo is hallow, it makes for a natural wind | | | | Pinjakan |
| instrument, and cultures from all over the world | | | | The pinjakan is native to Bali, and it is a kind of |
| have used it to their musical advantage. Here are | | | | musical windmill decorated with some kind of doll |
| some of the most unique bamboo instruments in | | | | or figurine. It works in such a way that when the |
| the world. | | | | wind turns the windmill, the figurine moves and a |
| Valiha | | | | beautiful sound is played. It was traditionally used |
| The valiha is a type of zither made with a long, | | | | in rice fields to scare off sparrows, but musicians |
| bamboo tube. It's an instrument native to | | | | today sometimes incorporate it into their songs. |
| Madagascar and it is played traditionally by plucking | | | | Angklung |
| the strings. Originally these were made with | | | | This musical instrument is made with two bamboo |
| strands of bamboo skin, but today they are | | | | tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The shoots |
| usually made from bicycle brake cables. The | | | | from the bamboo plant are carved in such a way |
| cables are usually taken apart into individual | | | | as to produce a resonant pitch when struck. The |
| strands and the strands are then used as strings. | | | | player holds the base of the instrument with one |
| Jegog | | | | hand and shakes the instrument form side to side |
| Jegog instruments are made with treated shoots | | | | quickly with the other hand, which produces a |
| from the bamboo plant. The tradition of jegog | | | | single, repeating note. Each performer in an |
| music comes from the region of Western Bali in | | | | angklung ensemble will thus play only one note, |
| Indonesia. The instruments have a four note scale | | | | and together they create a melody. |