The fiddle, also known as the matouqin in Chinese, has long been associated with song, dance, drama, stories and even blessings, and is no doubt a cultural icon, according to Master Chiborag, the ...

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 ...

Erhu performer Zhang Zhijun (L) instructs his students in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 13, 2019. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

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?

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.

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 ...

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