Bamboo's natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments, most commonly flutes.

There are numerous types of bamboo flutes made all over the world, such as the bansuri, venu, dizi, quena, xiao, shakuhachi, shinobue, suling and palendag. In India, it is a very popular and highly respected musical instrument, available even to the poorest and the choice of many highly venerated maestros of classical music. It is known and revered above all as the divine flute forever associated with Lord Krishna, who is always portrayed holding a bansuri in sculptures and paintings.

Bamboo may be used in the construction of the Australian didgeridoo instead of the more traditional eucalyptus wood