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List of Chinese musical instruments

Index List of Chinese musical instruments

Chinese musical instruments were traditionally grouped into 8 categories known as bayin (八音). [1]

136 relations: Bamboo, Bangu (drum), Banhu, Bawu, Bianqing, Bianzhong, Bo (instrument), Bofu, Chinese art, Chinese instrument classification, Clay, Daguangxian, Dahu (instrument), Dapaqin, Datong (instrument), Dihu, Diyingehu, Dizi (instrument), Dong Son drum, Double reed, Dutar, Duxianqin, Erhu, Erxian, Fangxiang, Flowerpot, Fou (instrument), Frame drum, Gaohu, Gehu, Gelao people, Ghaychak, Gong, Gourd, Gourd mouth organ, Gu Hongzhong, Guan (instrument), Guangxi, Guban (instrument), Gudi (instrument), Guqin, Guzheng, Hainan, He County, Huluhu, Huluqin, Hulusi, Huobosi, Huqin, Jew's harp, ..., Jiangnan sizhu, Jiaohu, Jiegu, Jing erhu, Jinghu (instrument), Kam people, Kamancheh, Kezaixian, Khushtar, Konghou, Koudi, Kouxian, Kunqu, Laruan, Leiqin, Li people, List of ensemble formations in traditional Chinese music, Liujiaoxian, Liuqin, Lusheng, Maguhu, Mangtong, Metal, Metallophone, Morin khuur, Music of China, Nakhi people, Niutuiqin, Ocarina, Paiban, Paigu, Paixiao, Pan flute, Paqin, Pellet drum, Pingluo County, Pipa, Qing dynasty, Qinqin, Rawap, Rock (geology), Ruan, Sanhu, Sanxian, Sataer, Se (instrument), Sheng (instrument), Sihu (instrument), Silk, Skin, Sounding stone, String instrument, Suona, Taiwanese opera, Tanggu (drum), Tembor, Tiexianzai, Tiqin, Toy, Traditional Korean musical instruments, Tuhu, Wenzhou, Wood, Wood block, Wooden fish, Xiao (flute), Xindi (instrument), Xiqin, Xun (instrument), Yangqin, Yazheng, Yehu, Yi people, Yu (percussion instrument), Yu (wind instrument), Yueqin, Yunluo, Yunnan, Zhangu, Zhejiang, Zhengni, Zhonghu, Zhu (percussion instrument), Zhu (string instrument), Zhuang people, Zhuihu. Expand index (86 more) »

Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bangu (drum)

The bangu, often simply gu, is a Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera.

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Banhu

The banhu (板胡, pinyin: bǎnhú) is a Chinese traditional bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.

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Bawu

The bawu (also ba wu) is a Chinese wind instrument.

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Bianqing

The bianqing is an ancient Chinese percussion instrument consisting of a set of L-shaped flat stone chimes known as qing, played melodically.

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Bianzhong

Bianzhong (pronounced) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically.

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Bo (instrument)

The bo is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbals.

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Bofu

Bofu (?–771 CE), sometimes referred to as Bopan (伯盘), was the son of Chinese Zhou Dynasty monarch King You of Zhou and his concubine Bao Si.

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Chinese art

Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists.

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Chinese instrument classification

Chinese musical instruments were traditionally classified according to the materials used in their construction.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Daguangxian

The daguangxian (literally "great, broad string ") is a Chinese bowed two-stringed musical instrument in the huqin family of instruments, held on the lap and played upright.

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Dahu (instrument)

The dahu (大 胡, pinyin: dàhú) is a large bowed string instrument from China.

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Dapaqin

The dapaqin (大琶琴) is a modern bowed string instrument originating in China.

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Datong (instrument)

The datong (大筒) is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family, and is used as an accompanying instrument in the huaguxi opera tradition of Hunan, China.

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Dihu

The dihu (低胡, pinyin: dīhú) is a large bowed string instrument from China.

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Diyingehu

The bass gehu (低音革胡; pinyin: dīyīngéhú,; also called digehu or beigehu 倍革胡, literally "bass gehu") is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family.

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Dizi (instrument)

The dizi (pronounced), is a Chinese transverse flute.

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Dong Son drum

A Dong Son drum (also called Heger Type I drum) is a bronze drum fabricated by the Dong Son culture in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.

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Double reed

A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.

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Dutar

The dutar (also dotar or doutar; دوتار; дутор; Duttar; dutor;; Дутар) is a traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Iran and Central Asia.

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Duxianqin

The duxianqin is a Chinese plucked string instrument with only one string; it is nearly identical to the Vietnamese đàn bầu, from which it likely was derived.

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Erhu

The erhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a Southern Fiddle, and sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.

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Erxian

The erxian (二弦; pinyin: èrxián; literally "two string") is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.

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Fangxiang

The fangxiang (also fang xiang, fang hsiang; 方响 or 方響 in Chinese, pinyin: fāngxiǎng; also known in the West as the Chinese chang) is an organized-suspended (bianxuan) Chinese metallophone that has been used for over 1,000 years.

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Flowerpot

A flowerpot, flower pot, or plant pot is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed.

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Fou (instrument)

The Fou (缶 or 缻; pinyin: fǒu) is an ancient Chinese percussion instrument consisting of a pottery or bronzeware crock, jar, pot, or similar vessel, which was struck with a stick.

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Frame drum

A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead width greater than its depth.

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Gaohu

The gaohu (高胡; pinyin: gāohú,; Cantonese: gou1 wu4; also called yuehu 粤 胡) is a Chinese bowed string instrument developed from the erhu in the 1920s by the musician and composer Lü Wencheng (1898–1981) and used in Cantonese music and Cantonese opera.

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Gehu

The gehu (革胡; pinyin: géhú) is a Chinese instrument developed in the 20th century by the Chinese musician Yang Yusen (杨 雨 森, 1926–1980).

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Gelao people

The Gelao people (also spelled Gelo) (own name: Klau) are an ethnic group of China and Vietnam.

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Ghaychak

Ghaychak or Gheychak is a Persian bowed lute.

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Gong

A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.

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Gourd

A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of Bignoniaceae "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna.

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Gourd mouth organ

A gourd mouth organ is a traditional wind instrument found in many nations of East and Southeast Asia.

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Gu Hongzhong

Gu Hongzhong (937–975) was a Chinese painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Gu was active until 960 CE University of Washington: A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization. Retrieved 27 August 2012. and was most likely a court painter for the Southern Tang Emperor Li Yu. His most well-known work is the Night Revels of Han Xizai (韓熙載夜宴圖). Gu's original no longer exists, but the painting survives as a 12th-century remake during the subsequent Song Dynasty (960–1279). The painting is housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

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Guan (instrument)

The guan is a Chinese double reed wind instrument.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Guban (instrument)

The term guban refers collectively to a small drum and paiban (clapper), which are played simultaneously, by a single player, in traditional Chinese music.

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Gudi (instrument)

The Jiahu gǔdí (贾湖骨笛) is the oldest known musical instrument from China, dating back to around 6000 BC.

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Guqin

The guqin is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family.

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Guzheng

The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, is a Chinese plucked string instrument with a more than 2,500-year history.

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Hainan

Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea.

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He County

He County or Hexian is a county in the east of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Ma'anshan.

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Huluhu

The huluhu (traditional: 葫盧胡; simplified: 葫芦胡; pinyin: húlúhú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.

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Huluqin

The huluqin (葫芦琴) is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family originating in China.

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Hulusi

The hulusi (traditional: 葫蘆絲; simplified: 葫芦丝; pinyin: húlúsī) or cucurbit flute is a free reed wind instrument from China and the Shan State.

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Huobosi

The Huobosi (simplified: 火不思; pinyin: Huǒbùsī) is a stringed musical instrument from China.

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Huqin

Huqin is a family of bowed string instruments, more specifically, a spike fiddle popularly used in Chinese music.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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Jiangnan sizhu

Jiangnan sizhu is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from the Jiangnan region of China.

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Jiaohu

The jiaohu (角胡; pinyin: jiǎohú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of musical instruments.

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Jiegu

Jiegu is an alternative spelling of Gyêgu the town in Qinghai province The jiegu (羯鼓; Wade–Giles: chieh2-ku3; pinyin: jiégǔ; sometimes translated as "wether drum"; also written as 鞨鼓) was a drum used in ancient China.

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Jing erhu

The jing erhu is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument in the huqin family of instruments, similar to the erhu.

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Jinghu (instrument)

The jinghu (京胡; pinyin: jīnghú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family, used primarily in Beijing opera.

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Kam people

The Dong people, also known as Kam people (endonym), a Kam–Sui people of southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.

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Kamancheh

The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (کمانچه) is an Iranian bowed string instrument, used also in Armenian, Azerbaijani, Turkish and Kurdish music and related to the rebab, the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and also to the bowed Byzantine lyra, ancestor of the European violin family.

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Kezaixian

The kezaixian is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family originating in China.

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Khushtar

The khushtar (Chinese: 胡西它尔; Uyghur: خۇشتار, Хуштар) is a bowed stringed instrument from the Uyghur Region, Western China.

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Konghou

The konghou is an ancient Chinese harp.

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Koudi

The koudi (Chinese: 口笛; pinyin: kǒudí; also spelled kou di) is a very small Chinese flute made from bamboo.

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Kouxian

Kouxian is a general Chinese term for any variety of jaw harp.

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Kunqu

Kunqu, also known as Kunju (崑劇), Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera.

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Laruan

The lāruǎn (拉阮; also spelled la ruan) is a relatively new Chinese string instrument blending the acoustics of the ruan with that of the Western cello.

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Leiqin

The leiqin (雷琴 or 擂琴, literally "thunderous instrument"; also called leihu) is a Chinese bowed string musical instrument.

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Li people

The Li (黎; pinyin: Lí) or Hlai are an ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

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List of ensemble formations in traditional Chinese music

This is a list of ensemble formations in traditional Chinese music.

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Liujiaoxian

The liujiaoxian (六角弦) is a traditional Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family.

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Liuqin

The liuqin (Chinese: 柳琴, p liǔqín) is a four-stringed Chinese mandolin with a pear-shaped body.

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Lusheng

The lusheng (also spelled lu sheng; spelled ghengx in standard Hmong and qeej in Laotian RPA Hmong) is a Miao musical instrument with multiple bamboo pipes, each fitted with a free reed, which are fitted into a long blowing tube made of hardwood.

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Maguhu

The maguhu (馬骨胡; simplified: 马骨胡; pinyin: mǎgǔhú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of musical instruments.

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Mangtong

The mangtong is a Chinese end-blown free reed wind instrument.

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Metal

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

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Metallophone

A metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.

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Morin khuur

The morin khuur (морин хуур), also known as the horsehead fiddle, is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.

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Music of China

Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China.

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Nakhi people

The Nakhi or Nashi (endonym: ¹na²khi) are an ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

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Niutuiqin

The niubaqin (牛腿琴), or niubatui (牛巴腿), is a traditional Chinese bowed string instrument.

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Ocarina

The ocarina is an ancient wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute.

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Paiban

The paiban is a clapper made from several flat pieces of hardwood or bamboo, which is used in many different forms of Chinese music.

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Paigu

The Chinese paigu (排鼓; pinyin: páigǔ; also spelled pai gu) is a set of three to seven tuned drums (in most instances five are used), traditionally made of wood with animal skin heads.

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Paixiao

The paixiao (traditional: 排簫; simplified: 排箫; pinyin: páixiāo; also pái xiāo, pai-hsiao, pronounced) is an ancient Chinese wind instrument, a form of Pan flute.

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Pan flute

The pan flutes (also known as panpipes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Paqin

The paqin (琶琴) is a modern bowed string instrument originating in China.

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Pellet drum

Pellet drums, or rattle drums, are a class of membranophone, or drum, characterized by their construction and manner of playing.

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Pingluo County

Pingluo County is a county under the administration of Shizuishan city in the north of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Pipa

The pipa is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Qinqin

The qinqin (秦琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Dan-tru) is a plucked Chinese lute.

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Rawap

The rawap (Uyghur: راۋاپ, равап) is a fretless plucked long-necked stringed instrument used in folk music by residents of the Uyghur Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang, Western China.

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Rock (geology)

Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

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Ruan

The ruan is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument.

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Sanhu

The sanhu proper (Chinese: 三胡; pinyin: sānhú) is a Chinese bowed musical instrument with three strings.

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Sanxian

The sanxian (literally "three strings") is a Chinese lute — a three-stringed fretless plucked musical instrument.

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Sataer

The sataer (ucy; 萨它尔) is a traditional Chinese long-necked bowed lute.

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Se (instrument)

The se is an ancient Chinese plucked zither (string instrument).

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Sheng (instrument)

The sheng (also spelt as cheng in Encyclopædia Britannica) is a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes.

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Sihu (instrument)

The sihu (known as a ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠴᠢᠷ / Хуучир / Khuuchir in Mongolia, where this term define the whole hugin family) is a Chinese bowed string instrument with four strings.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Skin

Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.

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Sounding stone

A sounding stone or qing (磬) (rarely 鸣石 or 响石) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Suona

The suona, also called laba or haidi, is a Chinese sorna (double-reeded horn).

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Taiwanese opera

Taiwanese (folk) Ke-Tse opera is the only form of traditional drama known to have originated in Taiwan.

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Tanggu (drum)

The tanggu (堂鼓; pinyin: tánggǔ,; literally "ceremonial hall drum"; sometimes spelled tang gu) is a traditional Chinese drum from the 19th century.

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Tembor

The Tembor is a stringed musical instrument used in the music of Xinjiang, a diverse region of western China.

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Tiexianzai

The tiexianzai (鐵弦仔), also known as the guchuixian (鼓吹弦), is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family originating in China.

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Tiqin

The tiqin is a name applied to several two-stringed Chinese bowed string musical instruments in the huqin family of instruments.

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Toy

A toy is an item that is used in play, especially one designed for such use.

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Traditional Korean musical instruments

Traditional Korean musical instruments comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments.

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Tuhu

The tuhu (土胡, pinyin: tǔhú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.

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Wenzhou

Wenzhou (pronounced; Wenzhounese) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Wood block

A wood block (also spelled as a single word, woodblock) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument.

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Wooden fish

A wooden fish, also known as a Chinese temple block. is a wooden percussion instrument.

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Xiao (flute)

The xiao (pronounced) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute.

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Xindi (instrument)

The xindi (literally "new flute") is a Chinese musical instrument.

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Xiqin

The xiqin was a bowed string musical instrument.

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Xun (instrument)

The xun (Cantonese.

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Yangqin

The trapezoidal yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, originally from Persia (modern-day Iran).

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Yazheng

The yazheng (simplified: 轧筝; traditional: 軋箏; pinyin: yàzhēng; also spelled ya zheng or ya cheng) is a Chinese string instrument.

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Yehu

The yehu is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family of Chinese musical instruments.

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Yi people

The Yi or Nuosuo people (historically known as Lolo) are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand.

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Yu (percussion instrument)

The yu (pinyin: yǔ) was a wooden percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back comprising 27 "teeth", used since ancient times in China for Confucian court ritual music.

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Yu (wind instrument)

The Yu (竽; pinyin: yú) was a free reed wind instrument used in ancient China.

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Yueqin

The yueqin or yue qin (Chinese: 月琴, p yuèqín), formerly romanized as yüeh-ch‘in and also known as the moon guitar, moon zither, gekkin, laqin, or la-ch‘in, is a traditional Chinese string instrument.

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Yunluo

The yunluo (simplified: 云锣; traditional: 雲鑼 pinyin: yúnluó,; literally "cloud gongs" or "cloud of gongs"), is a traditional Chinese musical instrument.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.

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Zhangu

The Zhangu (战鼓), or war drum, is a Chinese musical instrument.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zhengni

The zhengni (筝尼) is a traditional Chinese bowed zither, similar to the ancient Chinese instrument yazheng and Korean ajaeng.

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Zhonghu

The zhonghu (中胡, pinyin: zhōnghú) is a low-pitched Chinese bowed string instrument.

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Zhu (percussion instrument)

The Zhu (Chinese: 柷; pinyin: zhù) was a percussion instrument used in the Confucian court ritual music of ancient China.

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Zhu (string instrument)

The zhu (筑; pinyin: zhù) was an ancient Chinese string instrument.

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Zhuang people

The Zhuang people are an ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.

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Zhuihu

The zhuihu (坠胡, pinyin: zhùihú; also called zhuiqin or zhuizixian) is a two-stringed bowed string instrument from China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_musical_instruments

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