Chinese musical instruments

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As every country has its own traditional music and musical instruments, China also has traditional musical instruments that have developed over the centuries. Traditional Chinese musical instruments were made of the materials have classified information. These materials are namely, stone, silk, gourd, metal, bamboo, clay, leather and wood. Among these were exceeded in stone and wooden tools. Chinese musical instruments can be classified into stringWind or percussion instruments. Can be classified into plucked string instruments and string instruments. The tools consist of older people in long harp, panpipes, flutes, the Sheng, or harmonica and percussion instruments, such as clappers, gongs and drums. Various lutes and fiddles were introduced later to China from Central Asia.

Erhu is a kind of stringed instrument. It's a two-stringed violin, and is one of the most popular in ChinaHu-Qin family. Gao-hu is another stringed instrument. Gao-Hu is particularly acute Erhu melodies you can not play and often used for performing vivid and lively rhythms. Gao-Hu has louder volume yet brighter tones, and serves both as a solo instrument and leads to the realization of Cantonese operas and folk melodies.

Pipe is a kind of plucked instruments and belongs to the family of the lute. This is a four string with 30 keys and pear-shaped body. The pipe istaken up by the musician and played with five small plectrum attached to each finger right hand. This instrument has a remarkable power of expression and an extremely dynamic. Yueqin, a plucked string instrument, is a moon-shaped lute with a short neck and four strings. Gugino is another important tool to pinch, which is like a seven-stringed zither.

Wind musical instruments are very popular in China. A Dizi, which is traditionally made of bamboo, thewind instrument easier. This tool is particularly important because it is a cheap and relatively easy to learn.