With the efforts of generations of national musicians,Chinese traditional musical instruments have constituted a large musical instrument system.According to incomplete statistics,China now has more than 600 varieties of national musical instruments with unique characteristics.These traditional national musical instruments can be generally divided into four categories: wind bowed,plucked strings,and percussion in accordance with che sound and playing methods.
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...
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...
Used for drumheads, the historic significance of skin is found in the signaling nature of the drums themselves (rather than, say, in communion with the hideyielding water buffalo). More than twenty dr...
