Robert Waterhouse appraises a 19th C. Chinese stringed instrument found in Detroit, MI, in this web-exclusive appraisal ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in ...

Web Appraisal: 19th C. Chinese Stringed Instrument from Detroit, MI.

What sounds sweeter and more personal than a violin? Many people would say the erhu, a Chinese string instrument dating to the mid-8th century that has been put to some very modern uses recently ...

Ancient Chinese music features a distinctive sound, enriched by the centuries-long use of string instruments such as guqins and erhus, various types of flutes, and even an ancient organ-like ...

Feng himself sings and plays the ruan, an old Chinese plucked-string instrument.

The job of founding director of the Chinese Center for Music and Culture at Middle Tennessee State University combined her musical career playing the zheng, a Chinese string instrument, and her ...

In the form of chamber music, the composer used Western string instruments, brass-wind instruments, Chinese percussion instruments, suona horn (a woodwind instrument) and sheng (a reed pipe wind ...

“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments ...

The composer Gordon Lee, an ebullient character with shoulder-length hair and an eruptive laugh, is sitting in the small studio at his Cupertino home — crammed with saxophones, Chinese string ...