Laotian flutes, Russian flutes, other rare flutes

[lbowen]

shop.nadishana.com/index.php This website looks pretty amazing, they've got some really obscure instruments there, one of them might appeal to someone here?

[Blue]

This hulusi at their site is so expensive:
shop.nadishana.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=4&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=106&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&lang=en

This looks like a quena/xiao, but the youtube video demonstrating how to play really freaks me out. It looks like one bites the flute:
shop.nadishana.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=4&product_id=126%3D0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&lang=en

This is really the bawu, which is associated with the Hmong people (called the Miao people in China):
shop.nadishana.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=4&product_id=118%3D0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&lang=en

And this . . . .. the setup is to elaborate and reminds me of movie composer Jerry Goldsmith wanting to experiment with another avant-garde sound producing device
shop.nadishana.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=4&product_id=89%3D0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&lang=en

I'm already preoccupied with the xiao and dizi, not playing as great as Xindi and Flolei. And with the Ukulele, my hands will be pretty full.

What not try this?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suling

Cheap and plentiful if you visit Bali.

[edcat7]

That hulusi is very dear and I don't think much of that type of drone. The hulusi is alot easier to play than the dizi with only one octave plus 2 and no 4.

[Blue]

The hulu (aka calabash) is very dear. You can dice it up and make a wonderful noodle soup out of it. (I wonder if you start having second thoughts of dicing up a hulu now that you play the hulusi often). You can make it into a device that stores wonderful medicine just like one of the Eight Immortals.

[Blue]

As this conversation has digressed to produce. Actually, whenever I hear someone talk about pipa, the loquat comes to mind because in Chinese, the musical instrument pipa and the fruit loquat both sound the same.



Further digression would lead to the topic about 京都念慈菴川貝枇杷膏
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nin_Jiom_Pei_Pa_Koa

[edcat7]

It seems every Chinese household has that medicine. I have no idea what's it for

[Blue]

It's used for coughs and colds. Personally I don't find it as affective as Tylenol.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nin_Jiom_Pei_Pa_Koa

Another useful medicine is
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan_Baiyao

One of the ingredients of Yunan Baiyao is
safeherbsguide.com/herbs/2012/07/31/teng-san-qi-madeira-vine/
Also known as
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anredera_cordifolia
which I can easily find growing in Taiwan or Berkeley, CA. Typically used in a stir fry.

Interesting that I could divert the topic from rare flutes to Chinese medicine right?

[Flolei]

Qurai is actually between ney and kaval. Nothing to do with quena, which is closer to Chinese xiao. People say that this kind of flute is very difficult to blow.