What is the Traditional Chinese Instrument Pipa?
Pipa has four-stringed lute with 30 frets and pear-shaped body. The musician holds the instrument upright and play with five small plectrums attached to each finger of the right hand. The history of P...
Guqin is Suitable for Self Entertainment
Compared with other stringed instruments, such as the guzheng, the guqin is of a smaller size and has a thinner board. There is a thick layer of lacquer on the surface of the guqin.So, the sound playe...
What are the Characteristics of Chinese Guqin?
The guqin has seven strings and is tuned in a pentatonic scale, with major second or minor third between two strings next to each other. So playing the different strings may create the same tone,which...
Traditional Chinese Plucked Instrument,Guqin
Plucked string instruments are the collective term for musical instruments that use fingers and use bamboo to strike the strings to make sounds. It has a very long history, and the qin and se emerged...
Chinese Bowed String Instrument, Banhu and Morin Khuur
The banhu, also called yehu, qinhu, huhu, daxian, and piao, emerged along with clapper opera. It is shorter than the erhu, and oftenmade from coconut shells or wood and bamboo.The rods are mostly made...
The History of Chinese Flute is Very Long
For many Chinese people, the melody of the transversely-played bamboo flute or Dizi in Chinese, calls to mind a picture of a country cowherd riding a bull in the spring breeze. The gnarls in the long...
The Playing Techniques of the Erhu have Witnessed Development
With the efforts of erhu performers in history,the playing techniques of the erhu have witnessed great development.The commonly used techniques include bow skills namely bow separation,fast bow trembl...
What is Erhu? The Most Popular Traditional Musical Instruments in China
Erhu (Chinese:二胡), is a traditional Chinese bowed instrument which was started in Tang Dynasty. It was known as Chinese Violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle. Erhu has only two strings, a thick one an...
The Most Popular Bowed String Instrument in China, Erhu
The erhu is a bowed instrument that has become the most widely spread and most representative in China. It consists of a head,axis, rod, qianjin, qinma, sound box, strings and bow, most of which are w...
String and Woodwind Instrumental Music
String and woodwind instrumental music involves one or twopieces of string instruments and bamboo wind instruments as the core of the band. This kind of music is popular mainly in the South. Its chara...
