From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained. The ‘Chinese bagpipes ...

For its latest ‘Augmented’ instrument, Arturia is looking to China ... granular, wavetable harmonic and ‘simpler’ - enable you to create hitherto unheard ambiences and indulge in some ...

Wu Wei plays an ancient Chinese instrument with thousands of years of tradition that’s been “updated” for a modern audience. It’s called the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ. Reporter Caroline Feraday ...

This article serves as an introduction to our upcoming series on classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we will show you how musicians play the eight ...

The guqin is a Chinese zither, a plucked instrument 120cm-130cm (47 inch-51 inch) long with seven strings. It is one of the oldest instruments in China, dating back 3,000 years.

Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.

A worker makes components of traditional Chinese musical instrument at a workshop in Suning County, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 18, 2023. Photo: Xinhua A worker tunes a traditional Chinese ...

Today, Apple’s GarageBand music creation software is gaining an update on iOS and Mac that will more tightly integrating traditional Chinese instruments and sounds into the program. The updates ...

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