Balaman, Uyghur and Uzbek double-reed gas-sounding instruments. It is also known as Pippi, Bibi, and Balaman Pippi in the folk. In Chinese historical records, it has been translated as Balaman. It is also known as reed flute and reed pipe. It is popular all over the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, especially in Hotan, Maigaiti, Yarkand in southern Xinjiang, Shanshan and Turpan in eastern Xinjiang.

Balaman, which is popular among Uyghur and Uzbek folks, still maintains its ancient form. The tube body reed system is made of a kind of dry reed that grows locally.

The tube body is tough, with a tube length of 28 cm to 34 cm, an outer diameter of 1.2 cm at the tail end, an inner diameter of 0.8 cm, and a tube wall thickness of 0.2 cm. The upper end of the tube is thinned and flattened to become the mouthpiece of the double-reed reed. The length of the reed is about 4 cm. In order to prevent the double-reed reed from being deformed, two bamboo or wood pieces are also clamped under the reed whistle, tied with ropes, and clamped. Both ends of the piece are decorated with red ribbons.

So the upper end of the Balaman is in the shape of a cross. On the front of the middle and lower part of the pipe body, there are eight square sound holes, each hole is 0.7 cm long and wide, and the hole spacing is 1.8 cm.