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China/Shanghai (Chinese Music&Instruments) Part 71

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Channel: Nurettin Yilmaz · 2017 · Travel & Events

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Chinese musical instruments:
Chinese musical instruments were traditionally classified into 8 categories known as bayin (八音). The eight categories are: silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin. There are other instruments which may not fit these classifications. This is one of the first musical classifications ever devised.
Silk (絲)
Silk instruments are mostly stringed instruments (including those that are plucked, bowed, and struck). Since ancient times the Chinese have used twisted silk for strings, though today metal or nylon are more frequently used. Instruments in the silk category include:
Plucked:
Guqin (Chinese: 古琴; pinyin: gǔqín) – 7-stringed zithers
Se (Chinese: 瑟; pinyin: sè) – 25-stringed zither with movable bridges (ancient sources say 13, 25 or 50 strings)
Guzheng (古箏) – 16–26 stringed zither with movable bridges
Konghou (箜篌) – harp
Pipa (琵琶) – pear-shaped fretted lute with 4 or 5 strings
Sanxian (三弦) – plucked lute with body covered with snakeskin and long fretless neck
Ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) – moon-shaped lute in five sizes: gaoyin-, xiao-, zhong-, da-, and diyin-; sometimes called ruanqin (阮琴)
Liuqin (柳琴) – small plucked, fretted lute with a pear-shaped body and four strings
Yueqin (月琴) – plucked lute with a wooden body, a short fretted neck, and four strings tuned in pairs
Qinqin (秦琴) – plucked lute with a wooden body and fretted neck; also called meihuaqin (梅花琴, literally "plum blossom instrument", from its flower-shaped body)
Duxianqin (simplified Chinese: 独弦琴; traditional Chinese: 獨弦琴) – the instrument of Jing People (Vietnamese people in China) plucked zither with only one string a monochord zither tuned to c3.
wenqin 文琴 a combination of the erhu , konghou , sanxian and gusheng with 50 or more strings made of silk.
wenzhenqin 文枕琴 a zither with 25 or more string either plucked or bowed
Bamboo (竹)
A half-section of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) version of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, original by Gu Hongzhong; the female musicians in the center of the image are playing transverse bamboo flutes and guan, and the male musician is playing a wooden clapper called paiban.
Dizi, also known as di (笛) or hengdi (橫笛), and has varieties including qudi (曲笛) and bangdi (梆笛).
A Bawu in the key of F
Bamboo mainly refers to woodwind instruments, which includes;
Flutes
Dizi (笛子) - transverse bamboo flute with buzzing membrane
Bangdi (梆笛)
Xiao (simplified Chinese: 箫; traditional Chinese: 簫; pinyin: xiāo) - end-blown flute; also called dongxiao (simplified Chinese: 洞箫; traditional Chinese: 洞簫)
Paixiao (simplified Chinese: 排箫; traditional Chinese: 排簫; pinyin: páixiāo) - pan pipes
Chi (篪; pinyin: chí) - ancient transverse bamboo flute
Yue (籥; pinyin: yuè) - ancient notched vertical bamboo flute with three finger holes; used in Confucian ritual music and dance
Xindi (新笛) - modern transverse flute with as many as 21 holes
Dongdi (侗笛) - wind instrument of the Dong people of southern China
Koudi (口笛; pinyin: kǒudí) - very small transverse bamboo flute
Free reed pipes
Bawu (simplified Chinese: 巴乌; traditional Chinese: 巴烏; pinyin: bāwū) - side-blown free reed pipe with finger holes
Mangtong (芒筒; pinyin: mángtǒng) - end-blown free reed pipe producing a single pitch
Miaozu di (Chinese: 苗族笛; pinyin: miáozú dí

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