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Chinese flutes come in various types. They include
Transverse flutes:
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Dizi (and its varieties such as the
qudi and
bangdi; primary transverse flutes, usually made of bamboo and distinctively has a buzzing membrane)
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Koudi (a small center-blown mouth flute with open-ends)
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Tuliang (a large center-blown flute with open-ends)
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Chi (an ancient center-blown transverse flute with closed ends and front finger holes.)
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Hengxiao (
dizi without membrane)
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Xindi (fully chromatic
dizi without membrane)
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Jiajian Di (keyed
dizi without membrane)[
citation needed]
End-blown flute:
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Xiao (
end-blown vertical bamboo flute)
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Gudi, an ancient vertical flute made from the bones of large birds
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Paixiao (
pan pipes with distinctive notched or curved blowholes to allow for greater expression)
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Xun (clay globular flute)
(
Uyghur and
Mongolian minorities also play a version of the
Turkish
ney.)
Fipple flutes:
Free reed flutes:
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Bawu (transverse free-reed flute)
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Hulusi (vertical gourd free-reed flute normally with one or two drone pipes)
Chinese flutes are generally made from
bamboo (see
bamboo flutes) and belong to the bamboo
classification of Chinese music, although they can be (and have been) made of other materials such as
jade.
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