How to Play Bawu and Hulusi: A Beginner’s Guide to these Popular Chinese Wind Instruments

If you're looking for hulusi books in English, this is your only option. The book introduces the basic hulusi techniques as well as the various advanced techniques that make hulusi tunes more than just flute ones.Beyond the technique, the book covers maintenance, jianpu notation (all scores you'll find for the hulusi will use that notation rather than Western music notation), a selection of half a dozen simple Western tunes that can be played on the hulusui, and finally a selection of a dozen famous tunes traditionally played on the hulusi.It is a very good book to get started, and you can get recordings on the author's website.My only criticism would be that it could contain more traditional tunes, considering the price, but since the author has a dedicated volume of hulusi tunes, this is understandable.

Bought this because the title led me to believe that it might contain more than it did. Although the two instruments are very similar, there are several pages that are copied word for word for each, on how to hold them and which fingers to use. There is some useful info on Numbered notation and a few Western and Chinese tunes to play but although the author points to his website for examples to listen to, I couldn't find any mention on his site.I was hoping for more of an introductory course, with simple fingering exercises etc. as it is supposed to be aimed at beginners.As the only English language book I could find on these instruments it was rather disappointing.

Very helpful for me - I knew nothing about the instrument and found the book clear to understand & has some pieces of useful music, both well-known in UK & traditional Chinese.

If you want to play. This is the book

Good beginner tutor. Very easy to understand and follow.

The one I got do not change note. Now in the bin.

Easy to read and understand