Traditional Chinese music instrument

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Traditional Chinese music instrument

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• What you are listenning is performanced by
  traditional Chinese instrument.

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About Chinese traditonal music

• Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a
  scale of twelve notes to an octave (57 12) as
  does European-influenced music. Music of China
  appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese
  civilization, and documents and artifacts provide
  evidence of a well-developed musical culture as
  early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC).

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About Traditional Chinese instrument

• Chinese classical music is the traditional art or
  court music of China. It has a long history
  stretching for more than three thousand years. It
  has its own unique systems of musical notation,
  as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical
  instruments and styles or musical genres.

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• Chinese traditional instruments, musical
  instruments divided into four categories
• 1. Body Ming Musical Instrument
• 2.Membrane Wong instruments
• 3.Gas Wong instruments
• 4.There String Instruments

About Traditional Chinese instrument
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PIpa
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• The pipa is a four stringed lute with a
  pear-shaped body. Its short, bent neck has 30
  frets which extend onto the soundboard, offering
  a wide range (3.5 octavos). This instrument
  appears in texts dating up to the second century
  B.C. There are a lot of written texts of the Han
  Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) about pipa music played
  and the stories that inspired the composition for
  those pipa pieces. Since the Tang Dynasty
  (618-907), the pipa is one of the most popular
  Chinese instruments, and has maintained its
  appeal in solo as well as chamber genres.

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• The pipa technique is characterised by
  spectacular finger dexterity and virtuosi
  programmatic effects. Rolls, slaps, pizzicato,
  harmonics and noises are often combined into
  extensive tone poems vividly describing famous
  battles or other exciting scenes. The instrument
  is also capable of more lyrical effects in pieces
  inspired by poetry, landscapes and historical
  themes. Pipa music has been loved by Chinese
  people through centuries and there used to be a
  large repertoire of pipa music, a lot of them
  were lost, and some of them were handed down from
  generation to generation through individual
  artists and scholars

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• Plesea listen the song
• Shiny Spring and White Snow

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Ehu
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• The erhu (Chinese ?? Pinyin èrhú), sometimes
  known in the West as the "Chinese violin" or
  Chinese two string fiddle, is a two-stringed
  bowed musica instrument, used as a solo
  instrument as well as in small ensembles and
  large orchestras. It belongs to the huqin(??)
  family of bowed string Chinese instruments,
  together with the zhonghu (??), gaohu (??), banhu
  (??), jinghu(??), sihu (??), and numerous others.

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• The erhu can be traced back to instruments
  introduced into China more than a thousand years
  ago. It is believed to have evolved from the
  xiqin (??), which was described as a foreign,
  two-stringed lute in Yue Shu (??, yuèshu, lit.
  book of music), an encyclopedic work on music
  written by music theorist Chen Yang in the
  Northern Song Dynasty. The xiqin is believed to
  have originated from the Xi people of Central
  Asia, and have come to China in the 10th century.

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• The first Chinese character of the name of the
  instrument (?, èr, two) is believed to come from
  the fact that it has two strings. An alternate
  explanation states that it comes from the fact
  that it is the second highest huqin in pitch to
  the gaohu in the modern Chinese orchestra The
  second character (?, hú) indicates that it is a
  member of the huqin family. The name "huqin"
  literally means "barbarian instrument," showing
  that the instrument may have originated from
  regions to the north or west of China inhabited
  by non-Han peoples.

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• Plesea listen the song Water lily

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