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Chinese instruments and the creation of a national music
Modern Chinese instruments are a lot like modern China: a disparate patchwork of various Parts forcibly cobbled into a Whole that, to hear some tell it, Always Was and Ever Shall Be. That is a bit of an exaggeration: no … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Erhu, Gehu, guqin, history, Huqin, music, Musical Instument, pipa, Sheng
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The guqin
The guqin, also just called the qin and sometimes “the scholar’s lute” in English, is perhaps the most Chinese of all instruments. As qin performer and scholar John Thompson puts it: The guqin throughout its long history has been the musical … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, guqin, John Thompson, Lu Peiyuan, music, Musical Instrument, Qin
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Chinese drums
Drums and percussion instruments have been used in China since at least the Shang Dynasty (1562-1066 BC) when their use was recorded on oracle bones. In this video, Wang Jun (王军) does some improvised drumming on the flower pot (花盆鼓) … Continue reading
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The pipa
The pipa (琵琶) is a pear-shaped type of lute with four strings. It’s one of the most common Chinese musical instruments – varieties of pipa have been played in China for about two thousand years. Like many instruments now considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Dong Nan, Gu Hongzhong, music, Musical Instruments, pipa
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The guqin and earth’s greatest hits
In 1977 NASA sent Voyager I into deep space to explore the great beyond. The spacecraft contained a 12-inch copper disc titled “Sounds of the Earth”, featuring “greetings from the People of Earth in 60 languages, and natural sounds such … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Flowing Waters, guqin, music, Musical Instruments, zither
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Model Workers 2011
If you miss the old Danwei’s daily news updates, we now offer daily and weekly updates on a paid basis, or you can check the fine sources listed here in Danwei’s Model Worker list for 2011. We will update this list … Continue reading
A blind Beijing beggar and his erhu
The erhu — compact, cheap and easy to use to make noises that sound like music — is a favorite of itinerant Chinese beggars and buskers. I wanted to speak to an erhu-playing beggar in Beijing about his instrument so … Continue reading
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