ENG: Over the past year, I have actively collaborated with Silke Lichtenberg, a violin maker and environmental resource manager. Together, we organized the MMM conference and are currently preparing several manuscripts for joint publications. These include the MMM conference proceedings/edited volume on natural resource use and sustainability in musical instrument making, a chapter about applied […]
Category: Literature
New Botanical Description of Andean Woody Bamboo
ENG: Last year a new paper about an Andean woody bamboo was published by Bolivian and Brazilian botanists Iván Jiménez-Pérez and Ronaldo Vinícius-Silva. This is the botanical description of Merostachys nigricans, one of the Andean woody species of the Merostachys genus that is used in panpipe making, known under the Aymara name of kjirki chhalla (the other […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 