The product took 2+ weeks to come, but it coming from china, so its understood.
They were very courtious when contacted, and the item came as described.

comes with case, and BOOK on ho wto play etc.

VEry cool.

The BEST

The shipping took something like 8 weeks. Partly since it’s coming from China, and partly since it’s the holidays. I was hoping it would give me something to play with for a couple of weeks before school starts up again… but I got sick so I only just started to mess with it. I did give it a quick look though and here is what i found so far.
1. It comes in a semi-hard case with a zipper which offers good protection when you’re taking it to practice or whatever.
2. Both drone pipes, the main pipe, and the mouthpiece are securely attached (glued) to the gourd chamber.
3. The drone pipes do not have a pinky-hole to close/open them quickly. Instead, they have plugs on bamboo sliders so you can block or unblock one or both drone pipes as needed.
4. The pipes are bamboo, the expansion chamber is a gourd. The little red tassel is tied onto the back through a hole in the pipe that does not seem to affect the sound quality or tone.
5. Unless you select special artwork, you get the default picture of a woman working in the field on the gourd.
6. I got the one in the key of C which is the default option, and the fingering seems to be designed for people with VERY SMALL fingers. A couple of the holes are too close together for me to use two fingers, but too far apart for one finger. It will take some practice to get used to the fingering position. On the bigger/deeper-key instruments, usually the finger spacing is not quite as tight.
7. I haven’t yet done much practicing, but I did put some air through it once or twice and it doesn’t seem to have any leaks.
8. I don’t think I would call this particular version a ‘professional’ model, think of it like a beginner/student model. With the more advanced versions you can disassemble the instrument (carefully) to clean and repair it as needed. This one, the pipes are all fixed in place with glue. The better models also have a pinky hole for one of the drone pipes so you can switch between straight-tone and harmonic multi-tone without serious effort–just move your pinky finger. This one, the conversion is easy (just slide the plug in or out of the bottom of the pipe) but you can’t really accomplish it “on the fly” in the middle of a song. However, it does play pretty nicely once you get going.

One thing that I was not happy about, mine did not come with any sort of fingering chart or “how-to-play” guidebook. I’m not sure if they forgot to include one with my order or if they just don’t do that ever. It can be difficult to find hulusi how-to-play literature and videos in English. Most of the hulusi information is in Chinese. However, I have found a website that has a decent image of a finger chart and a couple of good videos. One of the videos is an example of a professional playing, and those are easy enough to find on Youtube; the other video gives some good tips for beginners who are just starting on the hulusi. On the fingering chart, any time you see the word “reel” they actually mean “reed” and there are a few other little errors because whoever wrote/translated it doesn’t speak English very well but it’s good enough to give you a general idea. When you’re watching the video for beginners, remember that his flute is in Bb and this one is in C unless you special order a different key, so your notes will not match up with the same notes on the keyboard as his do but his general tips are still pretty good. Here is the link to that. […]

Also, I just found two books on Amazon (in English): one on how to play hulusi in the key of C How to Play Bawu and Hulusi: A Beginner’s Guide to these Popular Chinese Wind Instruments and another that I believe is just a collection of tunes to play on the hulusi and bawu The Bawu and Hulusi Tunebook – C Edition: One Hundred and One Tunes for these Popular Chinese Wind Instruments and I will soon be ordering both of those I think.

I loved loved and loved the Hulusi.
It’s a great and beautiful instrument.
It’s not hard to play, but need a lot of training for good breathing and sound.