Music · ST10501
Xun and Ancient Flutes
Old melodies and new pieces played on replica bone flutes and clay xun, with an ancient, hollow tone.
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Mural guide
By a reedy lake where cranes fly overhead, a woman seated on a rock plays an end-blown bone flute while a child beside her blows a clay xun. Fire glows in a kiln beside a thatched hut, with pots on the ground.
The Jiahu bone flutes and prehistoric clay xun, the earliest wind instruments known in China