And so, if you are really serious about learning to play the Bansuri, seek out a qualified and classically trained master of that flute for instruction he will usually have the right connections to a reputable maker of concert quality Bansuri flutes. I have a few different Bansuri flutes in my collection, which I bought during my travels in India, and, frankly speaking, all of them have major flaws, musically speaking, and would not really qualify as being adequate for the serious musician. And so, many Bansuri maestros in recent years have come out trying to clean up this problem area, and raise the overall standards of the industry of Bansuri making. “Good enough for rock ‘n’ roll” – that is, good enough for the idle tourist who just wants something he can doodle around on musically, is still a long ways away from being good enough to play serious music on. I myself can attest to this fact from my travels in India, where Bansuri flutes of questionable tuning and quality are for sale, even in otherwise reputable music stores in Delhi. Add to this the fact that tourism forms a large part of India’s economy, which invites the business model of street side vendors hawking cheap – and cheaply made – flutes to tourists, and you have a scenario that encourages the mass production of flutes of shoddy or questionable musical tuning and quality.
The north Indian Bansuri is undoubtedly one of the simplest of flutes in overall form and structure it is a simple nodeless tube of bamboo, with seven holes burned into it, one blow hole and six finger holes, and a cork shoved into the top of the blowing end, right behind the blow hole. Introduction: A Relative Dearth of Quality Flutes
The Tourist Version, the Classical Versions, and the Hippie Version
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