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 ...

Guqin is a Chinese 7-string zither. It has a long history dated back 3000 years. It is a spiritual and meditative instrument and often used to accompany poets. In this concert, guqin master David Wong ...

“Wild Geese Descending Onto the Sand” is one of the most famous pieces of music ever composed for the guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Meant to evoke the sound of geese flying by the ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Three centers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa are set to sponsor a concert featuring the Chinese seven-stringed plucked instrument known as the guqin. The event will be ...

7 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep 47 1/2" height 120.6 x 19.6 x 6.3 cm ...

Against a serene natural backdrop, like sunlight flickering on the surface of a lake, or a vast, flower-strewn meadow, and clad in traditional Chinese attire, guqin player Xu Chaoran aims to create an ...

BUDAPEST, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A special exhibition featuring ancient Chinese zithers, or Guqins, kicked off Friday evening at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. Titled "The Voice of Nature and ...

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Within a courtyard adorned with a lotus pond, rugged rockeries and apricot trees in the southern suburban region of Beijing, a musician with a gray beard passionately plays ...

Cecilia Lindqvist studied guqin, a Chinese zither, under some of the best masters of the instrument in Beijing in the early 1960s. It was an education that allowed her introduce the guqin's unique ...