ENG: In March, I reviewed some bamboo flutes from the collection at the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (MUSEF) in La Paz. I examined several qantu phukuna and jach’a sikuri panpipes that were crafted in December 2007 by a luriri from Walata Grande, who used the renowned chhalla from the Zongo Valley. Some of […]
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The Sound Ecology of Musical Bamboos
ENG: Today I went to the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF) in La Paz and picked up my copy of the catalogue Saman Qamasap Ist’añani: Sonoridades y Espacios Musicales of the Annual Meeting of Ethnology 2023. Thanks goes to the MUSEF team for having invited me to publish a paper on The Sound […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 