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As each country has its own traditional music and musical instruments, China also has traditional musical instruments developed over the centuries. Traditional Chinese musical instruments assigned to the materials they consist of. These materials are namely, stone, silk, gourd, metal, bamboo, clay, wood and skin. Between these, the stone and wood tools obsolete. Chinese musical instruments can also be classified in string, wind, or percussion instruments. String instruments can be classified into plucked string instruments and bowed string instruments. The older instruments consist of long zither, panpipes, flutes, the sheng, or mouth organ and percussion instruments, such as clappers, gongs and drums. Various lutes and fiddles were later China from Central Asia.
Erhu is a kind of bowed stringed instrument. It is a two-stringed fiddle and is one of the most popular Chinese instruments in the Hu-Qin family. Gao-hu is a bowed string instrument. Gao-Hu is usually used for treble tunes that Erhu can not play and often used for performing vivid and lively rhythms. Gao-Hu has louder volume is brighter display, and so it serves as both a solo and leading instrument in the performance of Cantonese opera and folk melodies.
Pipa is a plucked stringed instrument type and belongs to the Lute family. It is a four-stringed lute with 30 frets and pear-shaped body. The pipa is to be held upright by the instrumentalist and played with five picks on each finger of the right. This musical is a remarkable expressive power and a very dynamic range. Yueqin, a plucked string instrument, is a form of short-necked lute Mon and four strings. Gugin is another important plucked stringed instrument, which is like a seven-stringed zither.
Wind musical instruments are very popular in China. The Dizi, traditional made of bamboo, is the simplest wind instrument. This tool is especially popular because it is a low cost instrument and is relatively easy to learn.
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