Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...

The Chinese guqin is a seven-stringed zither without bridges. It has a history of over 3,000 years and is a symbol of the Chinese musical tradition. More than 100 teachers and students from Russia, ...

It's the sound that unites Orson Welles and PJ Harvey What is it? Well. A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or ...

Guqin player Sun Ying and singer Yang Huahua blend guqin with vocals and release their album, Fantastic Telling, featuring seven songs they adapted from some of the most famous traditional Chinese ...

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For most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music—or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage of ...

Learning to play an instrument takes a certain level of dedication — and you can add another layer of dedication on top of that when it’s an instrument not found at your local Guitar Center. But it’s ...

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