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Chinese Music

 

Chinese music is as old as Chinese civilization. Instruments excavated from sites of the Shang dynasty (c. 1766-c. 1027 BC) include stone chimes, bronze bells, panpipes, and the sheng.

There are more than 20 kinds of Traditional Chinese Instruments. The following ones are popular.

1. Gu Zheng

What you are listening to now is Mighty Mountain & Running water ( Guzheng )

 

2.Gu Qin

 

3.Pipa 4.Er Hu 5.BanGu 6.Yue Qin

7.Dizi 8.Yangqin

9.Hu Lu Si   10. Ma Tou Qin

 


You can check out the following pieces from Youtube. These are my favorites.

 

  



  


  


  

 

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