ABSTRACT
Bamboo is simply the most significant plant on Earth. A sacred plant that has always influenced world culture, bamboo has special meaning to the world of music and instrument making. Bamboo was playing beautiful music 100 million years before there were humans around to hear it. All this accumulated ancestral Sound-Magic still grows in bamboo stands everywhere, waiting to be heard, to be discovered and shaped into instruments for realizing music. The beauty of Bootoo is in their simplicity and versatility. They can be made easily with few tools from any size available bamboo. Instruments like Bootoo embody the essence of a Sound-Magic that comes from ancient times to enlighten and instruct the present. A primitive tradition of new music is passed on to the future, as contemporary musicians and instrument makers continue to explore the many sounds of bamboo. There is a belief among some primitive people that spirits live in the inner chambers of bamboo.
