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Do you want to add drama and musical instruments?

When the performance is followed by western musical instruments, such as piano and violin, the article the should be added; However, when using traditional Chinese musical instruments, such as erhu and pipa, there is no need to add the definite article the.

People in China say "play the piano", while foreigners are used to saying "play the piano".

Extended data:

The definite article is a function word, which is used before nouns to help express the meaning of nouns. Different from indefinite articles, definite articles have definite meanings and are used to refer to people or things, indicating that the person or thing referred to by nouns is a specific one of the same kind, which is different from other people or things in the same kind and equivalent to the meaning of "that" or "this" in Chinese. Can be used with singular and plural nouns or uncountable nouns.

When playing an instrument, there should be one in front of it.

Playing the piano

Playing violin?

Note: Chinese musical instrument nouns are not used with articles: erhu (Erhu).

Usage formula

Especially double familiarity, as mentioned above.

It is unique in the world and has the highest ordinal number.

Some proper nouns, idioms and musical instruments.

If there is water but no lake, please use.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Fixed Articles