Bawu

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Bawu in the F key
Punch tongue

Bawu ( Chinese  巴烏  /  巴乌 , Pinyin bāwū ), also ba wu, bawo , is a Chinese musical instrument . It looks like a wooden flute , but used to tone a resounding tongue and therefore to the reed wind instruments counted, including the mouth organs belong. The sound is similar to that of the clarinet .

Originally widespread in the Chinese province of Yunnan , the bawu has become a standard instrument throughout China that is used in compositions for ensembles of traditional instruments. It is a typical solo instrument and is also often used in film music and pop music . Typical for the playing style of the bawu is the "pulling" of the notes and the rich ornamentation of the melodies .

The woodwind instrument is made of bamboo and usually has six finger holes and one tuning hole; the air vent is on the opposite side. The range is a little more than an octave , forked grips and half-covered finger holes allow the notes to be changed.

There are other punch instruments in Asia. The main differences are the different lengths of the instruments and the position and number of finger holes and the position at which the penetrating tongue is arranged on the tube. In almost all of them, the penetrating tongue is made of brass or bronze alloys. Only the Vietnamese ding tac ta has a bamboo tongue. It is almost always blown over the reed.

Mouth organs have a wind chest and combine several pipes, each of which emits only one sound. These include the Chinese sheng , the Chinese hulusi , the Laotian khaen , the qeej of the Hmong and the Japanese shō .

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