Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments

Group 4 Ma Pei Lan Kang Lin Tao

Traditional Chinese Music

Music in China is played on solo instruments

or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone

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Dizi Chinese transverse flute

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Sheng mouth-blown free reed instrument

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Gong

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Erhu Chinese two string fiddle

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Guqin "ancient stringed-instrument Plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument

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Guzheng or Gu zheng Belongs to the zither family of string instruments

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Pipa Plucked Chinese string instrument Chinese lute

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Morin Khuur Chordophone of Mongolian origin Played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands

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Suona Han Chinese shawm (oboe)

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Bianzhong / Ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically

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Xun Chinese ocarina made of clay or ceramic

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Hulusi Free reed wind instrument from China

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Trapezoidal yangqin Chinese hammered dulcimer

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Sanxian Three-stringed fretless plucked musical instrument

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Ruan Chinese plucked string instrument Lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings