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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.
Gottan or hako-jamisen; Sanshin (三線, lit. ' three strings ') – an Okinawan precursor of the mainland Japanese (and Amami Islands) shamisen Shamisen – a banjo-like lute with three strings; brought to Japan from China in the 16th century.
Shuangguan - literally "double guan," an instrument consisting of two guanzi (cylindrical double reed pipes) of equal length, joined together along their length; Suona (simplified Chinese: 唢呐; traditional Chinese: 嗩吶) – double-reed wind instrument with a flaring metal bell; also called haidi
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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.
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 ...
The other reference to the liuqin is the tu pipa (土琵琶), literally meaning unrefined pipa, because of the aforementioned diminutive size and resemblance of the liuqin to the pipa. Throughout its history, the liuqin came in variations ranging from two (which only had a range of one and a half octaves) to four strings.
Pipa. This instrument appeared two thousand years ago. Pipa is a general name. Playing the instruments with the hand forward or backward controls whether the sound is pi or pa. [3] In Tang dynasty, pipa was popular in the palace. Emperors as well as ordinary families all played pipa in daily life. Many paintings of that time show the pipa.