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), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also sometimes known as the di (笛) or hengdi (橫笛), and has varieties including the qudi (曲笛) and bangdi (梆笛). The dizi is simple to make ...

Century BC. These flutes were known as Dizi's or simply Di (笛) and typically had 6 holes for playing melodies that were framed by scale-modes.author=Howard L. Goodman|title=Xun Xu and the Politics of Precision in Third ...