Product Review

  The first English language book to focus on these traditional free reed wind instruments from Southwestern China, providing complete instruction for the absolute beginner.

Includes background of the bawu and hulusi, advice on buying an instrument, basic and not-so-basic playing techniques, some familiar Western tunes to help you find your way around your instrument, a dozen traditional Chinese melodies, advice on care and maintenance, how to read JianPu (Chinese musical notation), fingering charts, recommended listening and more. 

.mp3 files of all the musical examples in the book are available for free download from the author's web site.