In the early 1980s, Song Baocai, a wind musician of the Central National Song and Dance Ensemble, had a folk-made Surnai gifted by a friend. When he was playing, he felt that the sound was not correct, so he took it to the Beijing National Musical Instrument Factory and asked Wu Zhongfu, a wind music producer, to repair it. When Master Wu saw this wind instrument from Xinjiang, he felt that not...

Surnai, or suona in Xinjiang, is a double-reed gas-sounding instrument of Uyghur, Uzbek and other ethnic groups. Uyghur is called Surnai and Suonai, and there are various translations such as Suona, Suona, Suona, Suona and so on. Common name trumpet. Popular in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the traditional Uyghur religious festivals Kurban Festival, Rozi Festival or weddi...