1.   He also learned to play the di, a bamboo flute, and various Chinese string and percussion instruments, as a child.

2.   The eyes were glazed with beeswax and a two-foot bamboo flute was inserted through each skull, transforming it into a musical instrument.

3.   The songs are generally supported by the whole ensemble, led by a bamboo flute, whose player switches a couple of times to a raucous shawm.

4.   Two hundred dancers, playing smaller taiko and fue, or horizontal bamboo flutes, accompany the drum and drummer on a trailer.

5.   When he finishes, Wilson picks up a bamboo flute and reproduces the melody he had just played on the violin.

6.   An orchestra of lush strings is augmented by traditional Chinese instruments, including snakeskin fiddle, bamboo flute and hand drum.

7.   Jiang, who seemed relaxed and jovial all evening, played two short pieces, one on the two-stringed erhu and the other on the bamboo flute.