Traditional Chinese musical instruments, such as the xun (Chinese vessel flute), dizi (Chinese transverse flute), xiao (Chinese vertical end-blown flute), and guqin (Chinese zither), were highlighted ...

Xu Yang and her Chamber Orchestra perform. Unlike the widely-known Pipa, a pear-shaped four-stringed instrument passed down through numerous vicissitudes of China's long history, a similar plucked ...

A concert in Beijing on Aug 21 celebrates the conclusion of the Dunhuang Cup competition for the erhu, a traditional Chinese musical instrument. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The weeklong ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As a child, Shanti Chaudhari was scolded by her parents for standing too close to a group of musicians playing the naumati baja, Nepal's nine traditional instruments, because ...