Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

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, ...

To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

Peng Jingxuan plays the traditional Chinese instrument guzheng in Paris, France. Photo: Courtesy of Peng Jingxuan Under the Eiffel Tower, beside the Arc de Triomphe, along the bustling streets of ...

About a year ago, guqin (Chinese zither) player Sun Ying and singer Yang Huahua met by chance at Modern Sky, one of the country's largest record companies, in Beijing, where both were working on their ...

The sounds of an ancient Chinese instrument will fill the Englert Theatre Sunday afternoon. The guzheng, an 18-string zither-like instrument believed to be more than 2,500 years old, will take center ...

This is the ninth 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 ...

Entering the main office of the Anderson Center, a historic estate just outside Red Wing, it's not uncommon to hear music, since the property has long served as an artists community. But this month, ...

Canada’s Red Chamber is a musical group that plays songs from the Tang Dynasty — that’s A.D. 618 to 907 — and performs jazz, blues and contemporary tunes on ancient instruments. The group features ...

A traditional stringed instrument made for Chinese emperorSong Huizong in 1120 has been auctioned off in Beijing for a record 136 million yuan ($20 million), state media said yesterday. The ...

The name sounds interesting enough -- even intriguing: The 12 Girls Band. And from China, at that. And when the curtain went up at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Thursday night for the ensemble’s debut Los ...