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Bamboo Musical Instrument

Bhutanese make out of bamboo musical instruments such as flutes, jaling oboes and kongthang harps, trumpets and fiddles. Bamboo and canes are also used as drumsticks. Cane and bamboo are also used to make intricate cases and containers for the religious musical instruments.

Names
  • སྙན་ཆས། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Bamboo Musical Instrument (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > snyan chas (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > nyen ché (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7579