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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.
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. Often, only two strings were used, as in certain regional silk-and-bamboo ...
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 ...
The yueqin (Chinese: 月琴; pinyin: Yuèqín; Japanese: 月琴, romanized: Gekkin; Korean: 월금/月琴, romanized: Wolgeum; Vietnamese: Nguyệt cầm/月琴 or Vietnamese: Đàn nguyệt/彈月), 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 ...
Zhou Yi (Chinese: 周 懿; pinyin: Zhōu Yì) is a Chinese pipa player.. Praised for her “breathtaking” meticulous technique and expressiveness by the Washington Post (Stephen Brookes, August 2013), New York-based pipa (Chinese lute) and qin (Chinese zither) soloist Zhou Yi (pronounced “Jo-E”) was born in Shanghai, China.
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 ...
Dancing with the Stars 2024 songs and dances for the finale Redemption Round. Super Bowl Champion Danny Amendola and pro Witney Carson will perform a Tango to “I Had Some Help” by Post Malone ...
Đàn sến (two-string fretted flower lute, from Chinese Chaozhou qinqin) Đàn tam (fretless lute with snakeskin-covered body and three strings from Chinese sanxian) Đàn tam thập lục (hammered dulcimer from Chinese yangqin) Đàn tranh (long zither from Chinese guzheng) Đàn tỳ bà (pear-shaped four-stringed lute from Chinese pipa)