And look, Queen's Tears Bawu:
www.lugbuy.com/mottled-bamboo-boutique-bawu-senior-national-musical-instrument-manufacturers-specializing-in-the-production-process-of-intonation-sound-of-flute.-p_13060742696.htmlGood thing that I don't suffer from bawu and hulusi acquisition syndrome on the basis that they don't enjoy the octave range that a xiao and dizi enjoy. I'm already on an advanced stage of xiao acquisition syndrome (stage IV if you compare with cancer), something that Xindi couldn't understand when he tried to force me to accept a plastic xiao as a gift when I already accepted a wooden King of Xiao made Cantonese xiao from him.
Let's see, I have
one 8 finger root nanxiao pitched in G
one 8 finger purple bamboo beixiao pitched in G
one 6 finger wooden Cantonese dongxiao made by the "King of Xiao" pitched in G (mysteriously cracked)
one 8 finger Taiwanese made plastic root nanxiao pitched in G (traveled to the UK once)
one 6 finger alto D duan xiao
one 8 finger alto D duan xiao (traveled to the UK, Turkey, Greece, and Australia)
one 6 finger alto C duan xiao
one 8 finger alto C duan xiao (traveled to the UK, Turkey, Greece, and Australia)
one 8 finger root xiao in bass A (cracked horribly, but I'm trying to learn how to fully repair it . . . . . . it has traveled to the Spain, Hong Kong, UK, Turkey, Greece, and Australia)
one 8 finger root nanxiao in bass A (as backup to the one that cracked horribly)
one 8 finger root nanxiao in bass A (with red lacquer)
one 6 finger root nanxiao in bass A (cracked so horribly after 1.5 month of ownership that will return it directly to the maker when I have the time)
one 8 finger queen's tears qinxiao in bass A with two metal tenons for easy transport ( will likely travel with me to California . . . . . maybe I should play it in Golden Gate Park!)
one 9 finger queen's tears xiao in bass G with special design allowing both right and left handed people to play the very same xiao with the use of an earplug
three different plastic quenas/quenachos made of perplex or other type of plastic from Francois T de Villiers bought out of guilt that I offended Xindi by rejecting the one that he tried to force on my as a gift. (Three quenas/quenachos for US$25 isn't bad at all, though, but their notch configuration is like a tang xiao or Shakuhachi, which I'm not quite used to).
Does anyone want one of those half-eaten xiao sandwiches since I'm suffering from the diabetic equivalent of too much xiao? I can also give away half-eaten dizi sandwiches for free as well.
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