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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.
Pear-shaped fretless stringed instrument, with five courses of two strings and a single eleventh string, a bent back and a bowl-shaped body, often with up to three soundholes, played with a pick pandur: Chechnya: 321.321 pandura: 321.321 panduri: Georgia: 321.321 pipa [17] China: 321.321-5 Pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking ...
Huleiqin - pear-shaped lute slightly smaller than the pipa, with 2 strings and body covered with snakeskin; it was used during the Tang Dynasty but is no longer used; Pipa – pear-shaped fretted lute with 4 or 5 strings; Liuqin – small plucked, fretted lute with a pear-shaped body and four and five strings
The pear-shaped pipa may have been introduced during the Han dynasty and was referred to as Han pipa. However, depictions of the pear-shaped pipas in China only appeared after the Han dynasty during the Jin dynasty in the late 4th to early 5th century. [87] A small pipa was found in murals of tombs in Liaoning (遼寧) province in northeastern ...
On her way to the west, she carried a pipa on the horse. Looking back today, her pipa must have been a ruan-type instrument with a round sound box, since the pear-shaped pipa was not brought to China until the Northern Wei dynasty after the Han dynasty. However, in almost all the portraits and dramas, Lady Zhaojun's pipa is
Original – A late 16th/early 17th-century pipa made of wood, ivory, bone, and silk. This traditional Chinese musical instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets. It is played by plucking the strings. Reason High quality image that shows the important features of the musical instrument. Professionally shot.
The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou 4 gwat 1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region ...
Fretted lute with a long neck, pear-shaped body, and three courses of seven steel strings 321.321-6: Turkmenistan: dutar [142] Plucked string instrument with two strings and a long neck, strummed or plucked 321.322: Tuva: igil [143] Horse-head fiddle: Small fiddle: 321.322: Tuva: khomus [144] Jaw harp, made from a reed attached to a frame ...