The guqin, with its nearly 3,000-year history, does more than produce music. It is woven into the very fabric of Chinese ...

From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained. The ‘Chinese bagpipes ...

We look at China's earliest musical instruments, how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern ...

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

From Pianos, violins, guitars, electroacoustic instruments, Western musical instruments made in China, mostly from these little-known townships, accounted to over half of world's total production ...

Photo: Xinhua A worker puts traditional Chinese musical instruments in place at a workshop in Suning County, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 18, 2023. Photo: Xinhua ...

By contrast, Wu has noticed an increase in students interested in learning traditional Chinese musical instruments. Indeed, a musical instrument institution where Fang Xueqin teaches guzheng, also ...

Liu Wenwen is China's first Ph.D. student specializing in the suona ... We both needed to make adjustments and reach out to each other. To work well with other musical instruments, such as the oboe, ...

Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.