See: Chinese flutes End blown flute mouthpieces Name In the modern age, bamboo flutes are common in places with ready access to bamboo, including Asia, South and Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. at Sanchi and Amaravati from the 2nd-4th centuries a.d. In India, the cross flute appeared in reliefs from the 1st century a.d. He said that religious artwork depicting "celestial music" instruments was linked to music with an "aristocratic character." The Indian bamboo cross flute, Bansuri, was sacred to Krishna, and he is depicted in Hindu art with the instrument. The cross flute (Sanscrit: vāṃśī) was "the outstanding wind instrument of ancient India," according to Curt Sachs. The Chinese have a word, zhudi, which literally means "bamboo flute." Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute, and was made from bamboo. The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi (or ch'ih) in the 9th century b.c. Flutes made history in records and artworks starting in the Zhou dynasty. Historians have found the bamboo flute has a long history as well, especially China and India. In China, a playable bone flute was discovered, about 9000 years old. While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia too has a long history with the instrument that has continued into the present day. Examples of Paleolithic bone flutes have survived for more than 40,000 years, to be discovered by archaeologists. The bamboo flute, especially the bone flute, is one of the oldest musical instruments known. Native Americans also made bamboo flutes. Bamboo flutes spread from China and India, along silk road, and across the oceans to Southeast Asia and Africa. Flutes tens-of-thousands of years old have been discovered in Europe and Asia. Krishna playing flute with his herd of cows in Bucesvara Temple, Koravangala.
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