With nearly a decade in the job, Binh is able to play the drum, a monochord or a fiddle in order to stand in for anyone in his band of five. Other bands have four to six members.

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This week, we highlight the Chinese erhu, a two-stringed fiddle used in solo performances, small ensembles and large orchestras. Chi Li did not grow up playing with any toys.

Music for the Chinese two-stringed fiddle erhu falls into several major categories: traditional ensemble music, ballad and opera accompaniments and newly written pieces by conservatory-trained ...

For instance, the two-stringed violin originally came from Mongolia and the four-stringed lute from Persia. The form of today’s Chinese orchestra is borrowed from the West.

A Chinese musician famous for playing a two-stringed fiddle, a 1994 Hollywood drama about two prison inmates, a United Airlines flight bound for Washington and CNN – what do they have in common?

Three women played a four-stringed lute (pipa), two played a hammered dulcimer (yang qin), one played a zitherlike gu zheng, two played flutes and five played a two-stringed violin-like instrument ...

Sixty people crowded the Metzler Violin Shop on Central Avenue on Sunday to hear musicians play stringed instruments handmade in Italy. The violas, cellos and violins, shipped from Cremona, in ...