Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

Wu Man, the internationally renowned player of the pipa, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, joins the New Haven Symphony Orchestra to solo on Du Yun’s pipa concerto “Ears of the Book.” ...

Ancient Chinese music features a distinctive sound, enriched by the centuries-long use of string instruments such as guqins and erhus, various types of flutes, and even an ancient organ-like ...

such as the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - still fall under one of the eight categories. The silk category covers all stringed ...

with a new work that sets out to revive the sound of five ancient Chinese woodwind and string instruments: the chiba, five-string pipa, xiqin, bili and lusheng. The Five Muses of Dunhuang takes ...

Piano lessons for children were all the rage not too many years ago, but that trend seems to have withered, while lessons in traditional instruments like the Chinese zither, bamboo flute, and the pipa ...

The sound of the traditional Chinese musical instrument erhu ... Her passion for the two-stringed, bowed musical instrument comes almost entirely from her family, she said.

music played on guzheng -- a traditional Chinese stringed instrument -- and festival traditions such as red envelopes containing cash gifts and Spring Festival couplets inscribed with auspicious ...

This is the last step of "Operation Guzheng," named after a Chinese stringed instrument, which aims to capture key information needed to ensure the survival of human civilization. This is the ...