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List of traditional Chinese musical instruments

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Re-enactment of an ancient traditional music performance

Traditional Chinese musical instruments include a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. As early as 2,000 years ago instruments were classified according to the materials used in their construction. The Eight Sounds (八音) are: silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and hide (other instruments may not fit these classifications). Chinese instruments are played solo, in large orchestras (as in the former imperial court) or in smaller ensembles (in teahouses or public gatherings). Normally, there is no conductor or use of musical score or tablature in performance and only one of each instrument is used.

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[edit] Silk (絲)

Silk instruments are mostly string instruments whether plucked, bowed or struck. Since ancient times the Chinese have used twisted silk for strings, though today metal or nylon are more frequently used. Instruments in the "silk" category include:

[edit] Plucked

[edit] Zither and harp

[edit] Lute

  • Pipa (琵琶) - pear-shaped fretted lute with 4 or 5 strings
  • Sanxian (三弦) - lute with body covered with snakeskin and long fretless neck
  • Ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) - moon-shaped lute in five sizes: gaoyin-, xiao-, zhong-, da-, and diyin-; sometimes called ruanqin (阮琴)
  • Liuqin (柳琴) - small fretted lute with a pear-shaped body and four strings
  • Yueqin (月琴) - lute with a wooden body, a short fretted neck, and four strings tuned in pairs
  • Qinqin (秦琴) - lute with a wooden body and fretted neck; also called meihuaqin (梅花琴, literally "plum blossom instrument," on account of its flower-shaped body)

[edit] Bowed

  • Huqin (胡琴) - family of vertical fiddles
  • Erhu (二胡) - two-stringed fiddle
  • Zhonghu (中胡) - two-stringed fiddle, lower pitch than erhu
  • Gaohu (高胡) - two-stringed fiddle, higher pitch than erhu; also called yuehu (粤胡)
  • Banhu (板胡) - two-stringed fiddle with a coconut resonator and wooden face, used primarily in northern China
  • Jinghu (京胡) - two-stringed fiddle, very high pitched, used mainly for Beijing opera
  • Jing erhu (京二胡) - erhu used in Beijing opera
  • Erxian (二弦) - two-stringed fiddle, used in Cantonese, Chaozhou, and nanguan music
  • Tiqin (提琴) - two-stringed fiddle, used in kunqu, Chaozhou, Cantonese, Fujian, and Taiwanese music
  • Yehu (椰胡) - two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used primarily in Cantonese and Chaozhou music
  • Daguangxian (大广弦) - two-stringed fiddle used in Taiwan and Fujian, primarily by Min Nan and Hakka people; also called datongxian (大筒弦), guangxian (广弦), and daguanxian (大管弦)
  • Datong (大筒) - two-stringed fiddle used in the traditional music of Hunan
  • Kezaixian (壳仔弦) - two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used in Taiwan opera
  • Liujiaoxian (六角弦) - two-stringed fiddle with hexagonal body, similar to the jing erhu; used primarily in Taiwan
  • Tiexianzi (鐵弦仔) - a two-stringed fiddle with metal amplifying horn at the end of its neck, used in Taiwan; also called guchuixian (鼓吹弦)
  • Hexian (和弦) - large fiddle used primarily among the Hakka of Taiwan
  • Huluqin (葫芦琴) - two-stringed fiddle with gourd body used by the Naxi of Yunnan
  • Huluhu (traditional Chinese: 葫盧胡; simplified Chinese: 葫芦胡) - two-stringed fiddle with gourd body used by the Zhuang of Guangxi
  • Maguhu (traditional Chinese: 馬骨胡; simplified Chinese: 马骨胡; pinyin: mǎgǔhú) - two-stringed fiddle with horse bone body used by the Zhuang and Buyei peoples of southern China
  • Tuhu (土胡) - two-stringed fiddle used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi
  • Jiaohu (角胡) - two-stringed fiddle used by the Gelao people of Guangxi, as well as the Miao and Dong
  • Sihu (四胡) - four-stringed fiddle with strings tuned in pairs
  • Sanhu (三胡) - 3-stringed erhu with an additional bass string; developed in the 1970s [1]
  • Zhuihu (traditional Chinese: 墜胡; simplified Chinese: 坠胡) - two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
  • Zhuiqin (traditional: 墜琴; simplified: 坠琴) - two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
  • Leiqin (雷琴) - two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
  • Dihu (低胡) - low pitched two-stringed fiddles in the erhu family, in three sizes:
    • Xiaodihu (小低胡) - small dihu, tuned one octave below the erhu
    • Zhongdihu (中低胡) - medium dihu, tuned one octave below the zhonghu
    • Dadihu (大低胡) - large dihu, tuned two octaves below the erhu
  • Dahu (大胡) - another name for the xiaodihu
  • Cizhonghu - another name for the xiaodihu
  • Gehu (革胡) - four-stringed bass instrument, tuned and played like cello
  • Diyingehu (低音革胡) - four stringed contrabass instrument, tuned and played like double bass
  • Laruan (拉阮) - four-stringed bowed instrument modeled on the cello
  • Paqin (琶琴) - modern bowed instrument
  • Dixianqin (低絃琴)
  • Niutuiqin or niubatui (牛腿琴 or 牛巴腿) - two-stringed fiddle used by the Dong people of Guizhou
  • Matouqin (馬頭琴) - (Mongolian: morin khuur) - Mongolian two-stringed "horsehead fiddle"
  • Xiqin (奚琴) - ancient prototype of huqin family of instruments
  • Yazheng (simplified: 轧筝; traditional: 軋箏) - bowed zither; also called yaqin (simplified: 轧琴; traditional: 軋琴)
  • Zhengni (筝尼) - bowed zither; used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi
  • Aijieke (艾捷克) - four-stringed bowed instrument used in Xinjiang; similar to kamancheh [2]
  • Sataer (萨它尔) - long-necked bowed lute used in Xinjiang

[edit] Struck

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[edit] Bamboo (竹)

A half-section of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) version of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, original by Gu Hongzhong;[1] the female musicians in the center of the image are playing transverse bamboo flutes and guan, and the male musician is playing a wooden clapper called paiban.

Bamboo mainly refers to woodwind instruments, which include:

[edit] Flutes

[edit] Oboes

  • Guan (Chinese: 管; pinyin: guǎn) - cylindrical double reed wind instrument made of either hardwood (Northern China) or bamboo (Cantonese); the northern version is also called guanzi (管子) or bili (traditional: 篳篥; simplified: 筚篥), the Cantonese version is also called houguan (喉管), and the Taiwanese version is called 鸭母哒仔, 鴨母笛, or Taiwan guan (台湾管)
  • Suona (traditional Chinese: 嗩吶; simplified Chinese: 唢呐) - double-reed wind instrument with a flaring metal bell; also called haidi (海笛)
  • Nazi (呐子) - suona reed and bocal played melodically, with or without amplifying horn

[edit] Free reed pipes

[edit] Wood (木)

Most wood instruments are archaic idiophones or xylophones:

  • Zhu (Chinese: 柷; pinyin: zhù) - a wooden box that tapers from the top to the bottom, played by hitting a stick on the inside, used to mark the beginning of music in ancient ritual music
  • Yu (Chinese: 敔; pinyin: yǔ) - a wooden percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back, played by hitting a stick with an end made of approximately 15 stalks of bamboo on its head three times and across the serrated back once to mark the end of the music
  • Muyu (traditional Chinese: 木魚; simplified Chinese: 木鱼; pinyin: mùyú) - a rounded woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting
  • Paiban (拍板) - a clapper made from several flat pieces of wood; also called bǎn (板), tánbǎn (檀板), mùbǎn (木板), or shūbǎn (书板); when used together with a drum the two instruments are referred to collectively as guban (鼓板)
    • Zhuban (竹板, a clapper made from two pieces of bamboo)
    • Chiban (尺板)
  • Bangzi (梆子) - small, high-pitched woodblock; called qiaozi (敲子) or qiaoziban (敲子板) in Taiwan
    • Nan bangzi (南梆子)
    • Hebei bangzi (河北梆子)
    • Zhui bangzi (墜梆子)
    • Qin bangzi (秦梆子)

[edit] Stone (石)

The "stone" category is also idiophonic, comprising various forms of lithophone.

[edit] Metal (金)

Metallophones such as cymbals, bells and gongs are characteristic of Chinese music:

  • Bianzhong (編鐘) - 65 to 100 bronze bells hung on a rack, struck using poles
  • Fangxiang (traditional Chinese: 方響; simplified Chinese: 方响; pinyin: fāngxiǎng; Wade-Giles: fang hsiang) - set of tuned metal slabs (metallophone)
  • Nao (鐃) - may refer to either an ancient bell or large cymbals
  • Bo (鈸; also called chazi, 镲子) - cymbals
    • Xiaobo (小鈸, small cymbals)
    • Zhongbo (中鈸, medium cymbals; also called naobo (鐃鈸) or zhongcuo
    • Shuibo (水鈸, literally "water cymbals")
    • Dabo (大鈸, large cymbals)
    • Jingbo (京鈸)
    • Shenbo (深波) - deep, flat gong used in Chaozhou music; also called gaobian daluo (高边大锣)
  • Luo (traditional Chinese: 鑼; simplified Chinese: 锣; pinyin: luó) - gong
    • Daluo (大锣) - a large flat gong whose pitch drops when struck with a padded mallet
    • Fengluo (风锣) - literally "wind gong," a large flat gong played by rolling or striking with a large padded mallet
    • Xiaoluo (小锣) - a small flat gong whose pitch rises when struck with the side of a flat wooden stick
    • Yueluo (月锣) - small pitched gong held by a string in the palm of the hand and struck with a small stick; used in Chaozhou music
    • Jingluo (镜锣) - a small flat gong used in the traditional music of Fujian[3]
    • Pingluo (平锣) - a flat gong[2]
    • Kailuluo (开路锣)
  • Yunluo (traditional Chinese: 雲鑼; simplified Chinese: 云锣) - literally "cloud gongs"; 10 or more small tuned gongs in a frame
  • Shimianluo (十面锣) - 10 small tuned gongs in a frame
  • Qing (磬) - a cup-shaped bell used in Buddhist and Daoist ritual music
  • Daqing (大磬) - large qing
  • Pengling (碰铃; pinyin: pènglíng) - a pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals or bells connected by a length of cord, which are struck together
  • Dangzi (铛子) - a small, round, flat, tuned gong suspended by being tied with silk string in a round metal frame that is mounted on a thin wooden handlephoto; also called dangdang (铛铛)
  • Dianqing (引磬) - an inverted small bell affixed to the end of a thin wooden handlephoto
  • Yunzheng (云铮) - a small flat gong used in the traditional music of Fujian[4]
  • Chun (錞; pinyin: chún) - ancient bellphoto
  • Bronze drum (铜鼓)
  • Laba (喇叭) - A long, straight, valveless brass trumpet

[edit] Hide (革)

A Chaozhou dagu (large drum)

The "hide" instruments correspond to the class of membranophones or drums.

  • Dagu - (大鼓) - large drum played with two sticks
  • Huzuo Dagu (虎座大鼓)
  • Huzuo Wujia Gu (虎座鳥架鼓)
  • Jian'gu (建鼓)
  • Bangu (板鼓) - small, high pitched drum used in Beijing opera
  • Biangu (扁鼓) - flat drum, played with sticks
  • Paigu (排鼓) - set of three to seven tuned drums played with sticks
  • Tanggu (堂鼓) - medium-sized barrel drum played with two sticks; also called tonggu (同鼓) or xiaogu (小鼓)
  • Biqigu (荸荠鼓) - a very small drum played with one stick, used in Jiangnan sizhu
  • Diangu (点鼓; also called huaigu, 怀鼓) - a double-headed frame drum played with a single wooden beater; used in the Shifangu ensemble music of Jiangsu province and to accompany to kunqu opera
  • Huagu (花鼓) - flower drum
  • Yaogu (腰鼓) - waist drum
  • Taipinggu (太平鼓) - flat drum with a handle; also called dangu (单鼓)
  • Zhangu (战鼓 or 戰鼓) - war drum; played with two sticks
  • Bajiao gu (八角鼓) - octagonal tambourine used primarily in narrative singing from northern China[5]
  • Yanggegu (秧歌鼓) - rice planting drum
  • Bofu (搏拊) - ancient drum used to set tempo
  • Jiegu (羯鼓) - hourglass-shaped drum used during the Tang Dynasty
  • Tao (鼗; pinyin: táo) or taogu (鼗鼓) - a pellet drum used in ritual music

[edit] Clay (土)

This category can include both percussion and wind instruments;

[edit] Others

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 148.
  2. ^ photo
  • Lee, Yuan-Yuan and Shen, Sinyan. Chinese Musical Instruments (Chinese Music Monograph Series). 1999. Chinese Music Society of North America Press. ISBN 1-880464039
  • Shen, Sinyan. Chinese Music in the 20th Century (Chinese Music Monograph Series). 2001. Chinese Music Society of North America Press. ISBN 1-880464047
  • Yuan, Bingchang, and Jizeng Mao (1986). Zhongguo Shao Shu Min Zu Yue Qi Zhi. Beijing: Xin Shi Jie Chu Ban She/Xin Hua Shu Dian Beijing Fa Xing Suo Fa Xing. ISBN 7800050173.

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[edit] See also

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Traditional Chinese musical instruments
Silk (string) Plucked Guqin · Se · Guzheng · Konghou · Pipa · Sanxian · Ruan · Liuqin · Yueqin · Qinqin · Duxianqin
Bowed Huqin · Erhu · Zhonghu · Gaohu · Banhu · Jinghu · Erxian · Tiqin · Tihu · Yehu · Tuhu · Jiaohu · Sihu · Sanhu · Zhuihu · Zhuiqin · Leiqin · Dihu · (Xiaodihu · Zhongdihu · Dadihu) · Gehu · Diyingehu · Laruan · Matouqin · Yazheng
Struck Yangqin · Zhu
Bamboo (woodwind) Flutes Dizi · Xiao · Paixiao · Koudi
Oboes Guan · Suona
Free-reed pipes Bawu · Mangtong
Gourd (woodwind) Sheng · Yu · Hulusi · Hulusheng
Percussion Wood Muyu · Paiban · Guban
Stone Bianqing
Metal Bianzhong · Fangxiang · Luo · Yunluo
Clay Fou
Hide Daigu · Bangu · Paigu · Tanggu
Others Xun  · Gudi · Lusheng · Kouxian
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