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Stringed music is prominent in China, especially in the Jiangnan region, where it is the name of all the instruments made from wood and string. This form...

known as bayin. Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various...

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...

The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be...

sizhu music (chamber music for strings and woodwind, literally 'silk/bamboo') although it typically uses stringed instruments only. It is found in northeastern...

instruments in material categories in China is one of the first musical groupings ever devised. Silk (絲) instruments are mostly stringed instruments (including...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum Fingerboard...

instrument like the shamisen), qinqin (four-stringed with short, fretted neck and round body), ruan (four-stringed with long, fretted neck and round body)...

Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM; Chinese: 中央音乐学院; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Yīnyuè Xuéyuàn) is the national music academy of China, located in Beijing. It is affiliated...

Biwa (楽琵琶), 4-stringed lute Gogen biwa (五絃琵琶), 5-stringed lute Gakusō (楽箏), 13-string zither of Chinese origin Kugo (箜篌), angled harp used in ancient times...

include the zhuihu, a three stringed huqin, the sihu, a huqin of Mongolian origin, and the sanhu, a lesser-known three-stringed variation. The most common...

Vihuela (Spain) Viola toeira (Portugal) Xalam Yueqin (China) Zhongruan (China) Zhu (China) Zither Stringed instrument tunings Atlas of Plucked Instruments Classical...

with the guzheng, another Chinese long stringed instrument also without frets, but with moveable bridges under each string. Traditionally, the instrument...

simplified Chinese: 都塔尔; traditional Chinese: 都塔爾; pinyin: Dū tǎ ěr; Dungan: Дутар) is a traditional Iranian long-necked two-stringed lute found in Iran and...

the same pipa. Apart from the four-stringed pipa, other pear-shaped instruments introduced include the five-stringed, straight-necked, wuxian pipa (五弦琵琶...

in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments. Pre-Columbian Andean music was...

Jan, who appeared in such international releases as the soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, where he plays the stringed rawap. Jan's father...

have been in use in China for over two thousand years. Different systems have been used to record music for bells and for the Guqin stringed instrument...

Malaysian society: Malay, Chinese, Indian, Dayak, Kadazan-Dusun, Bajau, Orang Asli, Melanau, Kristang and others. In general, music of Malaysia may be categorised...

variation as three-stringed dombra, double-sided, wide-body, hollow-necked, etc. Kobyz (khylkobyz (Kazkah: қобыз)) is a stringed-bowed instrument. Kobyz...