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Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments

Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).

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Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments

Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).

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  • Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments
  • Traditional Chinese Music
  • Dizi
  • Sheng
  • Gong
  • Erhu
  • Guqin
  • Guzheng
  • Pipa
  • Morin Khuur
  • Suona
  • Bianzhong
  • Xun
  • Hulusi
  • Trapezoidal Yangqin
  • Sanxian
  • Ruan

Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments

Group 4 Ma Pei Lan Kang Lin Tao

Traditional Chinese Music


Music in China is played on solo instruments

or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone

Traditional Musical Instruments

Dizi Chinese transverse flute

Traditional Musical Instruments

Sheng mouth-blown free reed instrument

Traditional Musical Instruments

Gong

Traditional Music Instruments

Erhu Chinese two string fiddle

Traditional Musical Instruments

Guqin "ancient stringed-instrument Plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument

Traditional Musical Instruments

Guzheng or Gu zheng Belongs to the zither family of string instruments

Traditional Musical Instruments

Pipa Plucked Chinese string instrument Chinese lute

Traditional Musical Instruments


Morin Khuur Chordophone of Mongolian origin Played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands

Traditional Musical Instruments

Suona Han Chinese shawm (oboe)

Traditional Musical Instruments


Bianzhong / Ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically

Traditional Musical Instruments


Xun Chinese ocarina made of clay or ceramic

Traditional Musical Instruments

Hulusi Free reed wind instrument from China

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Trapezoidal yangqin Chinese hammered dulcimer

Traditional Musical Instruments

Sanxian Three-stringed fretless plucked musical instrument

Traditional Musical Instruments

Ruan Chinese plucked string instrument Lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings

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