Exploring the Chinese zither and erhu, ‘2-stringed barbarian instrument’ a bit like violin Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for ...

We look at China's earliest musical instruments, how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern ...

Cultural relics of musical instruments have been unearthed from a complex of tombs possibly dating back thousands of years in Zaoyang city, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 5, 2015.

Dubbed the "Chinese violin," erhu is a two-string bowed musical instrument. It is the most popular instrument in China's traditional bowed string instruments known as huqin.Given its beautiful, ...

Tong Man-hak, 76, taught himself to make the traditional Chinese instrument after his erhu was stolen on a trip to China. More than 10 years later, his erhus can sell for almost US$3,000 and one ...

A two-stringed bowed fiddle, the erhu is one of the most recognisable Chinese instruments. Ng says that it closely resembles the range of the violin, but differs in significant ways.

If jazz is about free-flowing expression, do the instruments have to be Western? In a cross-cultural experiment, a group of young Chinese musicians based in New York is testing the possibilities ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...