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  2. Pipa - Wikipedia

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    The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a (Chinese: 琵琶) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments.Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 31.

  3. Chinese orchestra - Wikipedia

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    Two Pipa players of the NENU Folkloric Orchestra playing in a concert in Valencia. The pipa is the alto range member of the plucked string section. One of the more well-known Chinese instruments, this instrument has been associated with imperial concubines and songstresses at teahouses, often conveying the stereotypical image of a demure damsel ...

  4. Four arts - Wikipedia

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    They were the mastery of the qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument, 琴), qi (the strategy game of Go, 棋), shu (Chinese calligraphy, 書) and hua (Chinese painting, 畫), and are also referred to by listing all four: 琴棋書畫; qínqíshūhuà.

  5. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...

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    Penn State’s defense didn’t need any help from the offense in beating SMU on Saturday. The No. 6 Nittany Lions intercepted SMU QB Kevin Jennings three times in the first half and returned two ...

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    College football players are playing more and making more. If you have problem with the changing power dynamic, you need to stop aside.

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    Players cannot take NIL money if they attend Army or Navy, but that's what makes the legendary game "college football in its purest form," says USAA CEO Wayne Peacock.

  9. Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a metal hose-clamp around the top rim. A 4 litres (0.88 imp gal; 1.1 US gal), rectangular olive oil tin, which acts as a resonator, is clamped to the base of the tube. The instrument is capable of playing both Vietnamese and Western music.