Bawu

The Bawu (also Ba Wu, Bawo ) is a Chinese musical instrument. It looks like a wooden flute, but used for sound generation by a beating reed, and is therefore considered one of the mouth organs. The sound is similar to that of the clarinet.

Originally Bawu was used in China's Yunnan province, it has become a standard tool in all of China, which is used in compositions for ensembles of traditional instruments. It is a typical solo instrument and is often used in film music and pop music. Typical of the style of play of the Bawu is the " pull " of the tones and the rich ornamentation of melodies.

The woodwind instrument is made of bamboo and usually has six finger holes and one tuning hole; the blowing mouth is located on the opposite side. The range is slightly more than an octave, fork handles and semi- covered finger holes to allow a change of sounds.

In Asia, there are other instruments that are similar. The Chinese Hulusi has the finger holes in the same arrangement, but has a wind load. For all other similar instruments are the main differences in the different length of the instrument and the position and number of finger holes, as well as the position at which the sweeping tongue is arranged on the pipe. Some have a wind load. In almost all there is the resounding tongue made ​​of brass or bronze alloys. Only the Vietnamese "ding tac ta " has a bamboo Timm tongue. Blown is almost always above the reed.

Other mouth organs combine multiple pipes, each giving only one sound. These include the Chinese sheng and the Lao khaen.