Mabu is produced by using the vibration of the reed to excite the air column in the tube to vibrate. Each sound hole can only play one sound, and it cannot be overblown. In the 1960s, some literary and artistic performance groups in my country began to reform the traditional mabu and achieved remarkable results. The Central Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe tried to use the reformed Ma...

Mabu is a single-reed air-sounding instrument unique to the Yi people. In Yi language, "horse" means bamboo, and "cloth" means reed pipe, which means a bamboo air-sounding instrument with a reed pipe inserted. Mabu's tone is crisp and melodious, full of field flavor. Although the shape is similar to the small suona, the tone is rounder and softer than that of the small suona, ve...