Bansuri South Africa – Sharing the Voice of the Bamboo Flute
Welcome to Bansuri South Africa, a space dedicated to the sound of the bansuri, the Indian bamboo flute. Here you’ll find simple resources about the instrument, a chance to listen to its music, and reflections on how this ancient flute resonates in African landscapes today.
A simple resource for the Indian bamboo flute in South Africa – listen, learn, and explore its sound.
In my past there is Krishna. In my dreams I dream of recreating a huge college of flutists, a veritable Vrindaban in which students will arrive to learn and study with satchels full of flutes, live in mud huts, eat at a common langar. A modern Vrindaban from which a thousand flutes will ring out each day. For what else is there? When my breath is gone and I cannot play anymore what do I leave behind? Some dedicated students! When you leave nothing behind, you cry at the point of death, but I still dream, I dare to dream that through my students my flute will be left behind as the memory of Krishna.
– Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, India Today, 28.02.1987