Xiao (簫)
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Used in Confucian ceremonies including weddings and funerals, this end blown notched flute of southeast China and Taiwan, was created by disassembling a panpipe called paixiao and placing equidistant fingerholes on each pipe. Often associated with scholars, some xiao have poems inscribed on them. The Japanese shakuhachi is said to be a descendant of the xiao, which is known as dosho in Japan.
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