This is the second in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Did you know that all of these instruments would not be what they are without the genius invention of the reed used on the sheng, a traditional Chinese free-reed instrument, which inspired most of the ...

From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained. The ‘Chinese bagpipes ...

Gourd mainly includes the sheng, a wind instrument dating to ... The evolution of Chinese instruments had a lot to do with ...

The sheng is one of the oldest, most important traditional Chinese instruments. It is made of bamboo pipes and its origins can be traced back over 3,000 years, making it one of the earliest known ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China ... It’s still pretty amusing to think of ancient Chinese emperors hanging out playing Super Mario ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in ...

Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the sheng, a Chinese instrument featuring a bundle of bamboo tubes attached to a curving pipe. The instrument contains ...

"She [Qin] is a very warm-hearted teacher and she's very skillful with the instrument," Yang Meng Sheng, 94, said. "So I like to learn from her." Qin takes pride in sharing the melodies of Chinese ...