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, ...

Young musician mesmerizes foreign audiences with her traditional Chinese instrument, Cai Hong reports. Peng Jingxuan plays the guzheng near to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. [China Daily] When ...

This is the sixth 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 ...

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 ...

When he was still a teenager, Jarrelle Barton, who grew up in Cleveland, discovered the guzheng, an ancient Chinese zither. Barton progressed as far as he could on his own and then moved to ...

Adorned in traditional Chinese red clothing and seated in front of a guzheng, or a Chinese zither, a young Chinese woman in the streets of France softly yet swiftly strokes her fingers on the ...

Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the ...

All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds ...

Artists Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been to the Upside Down but this backwards version might be the Strangest Thing you’ll hear this year Artists “It was a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna ...