Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

Qin Qian has played the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese violin, for 52 years. Every week, she teaches seniors at Jin Se Nian Hua Adult Day Care Center in Chinatown how to play the instrument.

Ancient Chinese music features a distinctive sound, enriched by the centuries-long use of string instruments such as guqins and erhus, various types of flutes, and even an ancient organ-like ...

Wu Man, the internationally renowned player of the pipa, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, joins the New Haven Symphony Orchestra to solo on Du Yun’s pipa concerto “Ears of the Book.” ...

such as the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra - still fall under one of the eight categories. The silk category covers all stringed ...

Piano lessons for children were all the rage not too many years ago, but that trend seems to have withered, while lessons in traditional instruments like the Chinese zither, bamboo flute, and the pipa ...

music played on guzheng -- a traditional Chinese stringed instrument -- and festival traditions such as red envelopes containing cash gifts and Spring Festival couplets inscribed with auspicious ...