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What are the ethnic musical instruments?

Ethnic musical instruments include Xiao, Guzheng, Sheng, Ocarina, Sanxin, Ruan, Suona, Yun Gong, Chimes, Waist Drums, Flute, Dong Flute, Pipa, Pipa, Clapper, Wooden Fish, Yangqin, Erhu, Sanshu, Panhu, Xiqin, and Horsehead Piano, etc. The flute is made of bamboo with a blow hole, a membrane hole, and six holes for sound.

The flute, made of bamboo, has a blowhole, a membrane hole, two (or four) air holes and six holes for sound. The membrane hole is covered with reed or bamboo film, and the left end of the blowhole is plugged with a flute plug, blowing horizontally. The sheng is an ancient reed instrument in China. As early as in the Yin Dynasty (1401 BC - 1122 BC) in the oracle bone inscriptions and (i.e., small sheng) the name.

The pipa is a musical instrument named after the way it is played. "Pipa" and "Pa" were originally the names of two ancient plucked-string instruments, and during the period from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the word pipa became the name of a variety of plucked-string instruments. After the Tang Dynasty, the pipa as a separate instrument of the special term and used today.

Silk", "bamboo" two names first appeared in the "Zhou Li - Chun Guan", belonging to the eight sounds, refers to the category of musical instruments. Han Dynasty, there have been silk, bamboo for vocal accompaniment of historical records, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties period, silk and bamboo in addition to the accompaniment of vocal, but also commonly used in singing before the solo performance.

The xiao belongs to wind instruments, wind instruments. Divided into cave xiao and qin xiao, all for the single tube, vertical blowing, is a very old ancient Chinese wind instrument. In ancient times, the xiao was used in the court of elegant music side of the prismatic sound of the air resonance instrument. There are two types of xiao: the six-hole xiao and the eight-hole xiao, which are distinguished by the number of holes. The difference between the flute and the xiao is that the flute is blown horizontally with membrane holes, while the xiao is blown vertically without membrane holes, but with back tone holes. The sound of the xiao is soft and elegant, often used for solo performance, qin and xiao ensemble, instrumental ensemble such as Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo, and accompaniment of local operas such as Zhejiang Yueju Opera, which is loved by the Chinese people and widely popular.

The horse-head qin is a two-stringed stringed instrument with a trapezoidal body and a handle carved in the shape of a horse's head, and is a favorite instrument of the Mongolian people.

The horse-head qin is a Mongolian folk stringed instrument. In Mongolian, it is called "Chaoer".

The body of the instrument is made of wood, about one meter long, with two strings, *** sound box is trapezoidal, the sound is mellow, low back and forth, the volume is weak.

Legend has it that a shepherd for the nostalgia of the pony, take its leg bone for the column, skull for the tube, tail hair for the bowstring, made of two-stringed zither, and according to the model of the pony carved a horse's head mounted on the top of the piano handle, hence the name.