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The sanxian (Chinese: 三弦, literally "three strings") is a three-stringed traditional Chinese lute.It has a long fretless fingerboard, and the body is traditionally made from snake skin stretched over a rounded rectangular resonator.
Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty , and although historically the term pipa was once used to refer to a variety of plucked chordophones , its usage since the Song dynasty refers exclusively to ...
Liuqin – small plucked, fretted lute with a pear-shaped body and four and five strings; Ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) – moon-shaped lute in five sizes: gaoyin-, xiao-, zhong-, da-, and diyin-; sometimes called ruanqin (阮琴) Yueqin – plucked lute with a wooden body, a short fretted neck, and four strings tuned in pairs
The ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings. Its four strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th century they have been made of steel (flatwound for the lower strings). The modern ruan has 24 frets with 12 semitones on ...
Nodes for the 3rd string are indicated by Arabic numerals, for the 2nd string by Chinese numerals, and for the 1st string by Chinese numerals preceded by イ. Horizontal shamisen tablature, read from left to right. Similar to guitar tablature, three horizontal lines represent the strings of the shamisen. Nodes are represented by Arabic numerals ...
The yueqin (Chinese: 月琴; pinyin: Yuèqín; Japanese: 月琴, romanized: Gekkin; Korean: 월금/月琴, romanized: Wolgeum; Vietnamese: Nguyệt cầm or Vietnamese: Đàn nguyệt), also called a moon lute or moon guitar, is a traditional Chinese string instrument. It is a lute with a round, hollow soundboard, a short fretted neck, and ...
The qinqin (秦 琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Đàn sến [1]) is a plucked Chinese lute. It was originally manufactured with a wooden body, a slender fretted neck, and three strings. [2] Its body can be round, [3] hexagonal (with rounded sides), or octagonal.
Qinqin – plucked lute, tuned to D3, A3, (optional 3rd string is tuned to D3) Guban – Wooden clapper and small drum (biqigu, diangu, or huaigu) Several other instruments sometimes are also used: Zhonghu – two-string fiddle, larger and lower pitched than the erhu; Ruan – plucked lute with four strings