An artisan carves Chinese characters on a Yuping bamboo flute at a workshop in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 23, 2019. As a traditional Chinese musical ...

Over the centuries, other types of Chinese musical instruments emerged. By the Zhou dynasty (1046BC-256BC), instruments were categorised based on the primary material used in their fabrication.

Guqin, xun, flute and xiao, four major traditional Chinese musical instruments, were highlighted during the ongoing 2022 Gateway to Arts Summer Festival's summer camp.

The guqin is a seven-stringed plucked instrument and one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments, having been passed down for more than 3,000 years, which is the jewel of traditional Chinese ...

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 ...

2000-10-30 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND-- Fourth-grader Kin Hang Lam strummed his Chinese moon guitar, trying to make "The Dance of the Yao Tribe" sound just right. Kin, a student at Lincoln Elementary in ...

Past playing around with traditional-sounding loops, users can now create their own customized sounds on new Chinese instruments, including the pipa, erhu and Chinese percussion.

An artisan blows a newly-made Yuping bamboo flute at a workshop in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 23, 2019. As a traditional Chinese musical instrument, ...