A bamboo violin is a violin that is made out of bamboo.
• Bamboo
Bamboo has the appearance of wood but it is actually a grass, with Giant Bamboo being the largest of all grasses. It is a perennial evergreen belonging to the family of Poeceae, with the subfamily of Bambusoideae.
Bamboo is able to grow to its maximum girth and height within in just three or four months, which makes it extremely valuable.
In the first season, young shoots grow vertically with no branching. The following 12 months, the pulpiest walls of each stem (culm) slowly becomes dry and hard. The culm begins to grow from the nodes, including leaves and branches.
Throughout the third 12 months is when the culm gets harder and is considered to be fully mature. Over the next few years (up to five years with some bamboo types,) mold and fungus begin to develop on the outside of the culm, and eventually they overcome it. Between five and eight years later this will make the culm collapse and rot.
This brief life of the bamboo allows it to be harvested for construction within a time frame of three and seven years, making it a very viable crop.
Bamboo is a valuable product in South Asia, East Asia and South East Asia; it is used for building, furniture, musical instrument and also as a food product as well as for many other uses.
There are about 1,450 different species of bamboo, which can be found in many areas throughout the world from cold regions to tropical ones. They can be found in Asia, Northern Australia, Chile, Argentina and Africa.
• Bamboo
Bamboo has the appearance of wood but it is actually a grass, with Giant Bamboo being the largest of all grasses. It is a perennial evergreen belonging to the family of Poeceae, with the subfamily of Bambusoideae.
- Fast growing
Bamboo is able to grow to its maximum girth and height within in just three or four months, which makes it extremely valuable.
In the first season, young shoots grow vertically with no branching. The following 12 months, the pulpiest walls of each stem (culm) slowly becomes dry and hard. The culm begins to grow from the nodes, including leaves and branches.
Throughout the third 12 months is when the culm gets harder and is considered to be fully mature. Over the next few years (up to five years with some bamboo types,) mold and fungus begin to develop on the outside of the culm, and eventually they overcome it. Between five and eight years later this will make the culm collapse and rot.
This brief life of the bamboo allows it to be harvested for construction within a time frame of three and seven years, making it a very viable crop.
- Economy
Bamboo is a valuable product in South Asia, East Asia and South East Asia; it is used for building, furniture, musical instrument and also as a food product as well as for many other uses.
- Species of Bamboo
There are about 1,450 different species of bamboo, which can be found in many areas throughout the world from cold regions to tropical ones. They can be found in Asia, Northern Australia, Chile, Argentina and Africa.
