Some of My favorite Chinese musical instruments and performances.Part 1

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As you might guess this blog is about some of my favorite Chinese instruments and string and percussion musical instruments are some of my favorites among these.

Also saw Sister Msmarl blog due to which I wanted to do this blog
This is going to be a long blog :blobangel: me ranting about my favorite Chinese instruments.Since it is long I have divided it into two parts. This is part one of the blog next will be tomorrow .

So here are some of my favorite instruments
1.Guzheng
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The zheng (Chinese: 箏; pinyin: zhēng; Wade–Giles: cheng) or guzheng (Chinese: 古箏; pinyin: gǔzhēng; lit.: 'ancient zheng'), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25 or 26 strings, is 64 inches (1.6 m) long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale.
[Information from wikipedia]
And Video here this one is one of my favorite Guzheng performances [ solo]



2.Yangqin

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Yangqin, Wade-Giles romanization yang-ch’in, Chinese stringed instrument of the dulcimer, or struck zither, family. The yangqin is played with bamboo beaters having rubber or leather heads. Its trapezoidal wooden body is strung with several courses (from 7 to 18 sets) of strings on four or five bridges. The sets of strings on each bridge are pitched whole steps apart and neighbouring sets of strings on adjacent bridges are pitched a fifth apart; this arrangement enables a musician to play a chromatic scale in all keys. The range of the yangqin covers one octave below middle C and two and a half octaves above it.

[Information from Britannica.com/art/yangqin]
And one of my favorite Yangqin performance [ solo]



3.Erhu

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The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]), is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a Southern Fiddle, and sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.

[Information from wikipedia]

Erhu makes me cry it produces very emotional sounds.

One of my favorite performance [ solo] very beautiful and emotional.



4.Chinese Bamboo Flute [Dizi]

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The dizi (Chinese: 笛子; pinyin: dízi, pronounced [tǐt͡sɨ]), is a Chinese transverse flute. It is also sometimes known as the di (笛) or héngdi (橫笛), and has varieties including the qǔdi (曲笛) and bāngdi (梆笛). It is a major Chinese musical instrument that is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, Chinese opera, as well as the modern Chinese orchestra. The dizi is also a popular instrument among the Chinese people as it is simple to make and easy to carry.[a]

[Information from wikipedia]

This is one of my favorite performances [ duet] Pipa and Flute



Thanks for reading also please do comment about your favorite Chinese or Asian instruments.

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    1. Sheri_Yui_Chan Oct 22, 2020
      @Ahmya thanks for reading the blog
      Also the novel you read might have been ascending do not disturb the main character's name is Kong Hou.
      Also will be putting part 2 soon I will Include Kong Hou in that its Ancient Chinese harp.
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    2. Ahmya Oct 22, 2020
      Maybe the Konghou......
      I read a chinese novel before were the FL knew how to play the Konghou, I didn’t know what it was so I just searched it on google and youtube. Besides that I also like the Guzheng and the Chinese Bamboo Flute.
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    3. CloudySkySadMoon Oct 21, 2020
      First time seeing the Yangqin. The sound it makes is nice.
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    4. LaDyViL Oct 21, 2020
      @Sheri_Yui_Chan aaahh!! A ghibli theme, no wonder it feels familiar. Lovely to hear it again.
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    5. Sheri_Yui_Chan Oct 21, 2020
      @LaDyViL Sure I am happy you liked the blog the music that is played on Yangqin is
      The town with an ocean view - Joe Hisaishi
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    6. LaDyViL Oct 21, 2020
      I don't have a favorite, but I enjoyed reading this blog post. If you don't mind, what's the title they're playing (yangqin)? The melody feels familiar...
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