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What are the Chinese musical instruments (English)

Chinese musical instruments are:

1. horse head string instrument. English [h?:s hed stri instrum?nt], American [h?rs h?d str nstr?m?nt]. It 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.

2. urheen: erhu. English ['? :hi:n], American ['? :hi:n]. Started in the Tang Dynasty, called "Xiqin", has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Erhu, or two-stringed huqin, also known as "Nanhu" and "Buzz", is one of the main bowed stringed instruments (stringed instruments) in the Chinese musical instrument family.

3, dulcimer: dulcimer. English [?d?ls?m?(r)], American [?d?ls?m? Is a commonly used Chinese stringed instrument, and the piano with the same family, the tone has a distinctive character, the volume of the grand, strong and soft; slow playing, the tone of the sound as the tinkling of the spring, fast playing the tone of the sound is like a gurgling water.

4, lute: lute. English [lu:t], American [lut]. Is the first seat of plucked instruments, plucked string type stringed instrument. Wooden, the speaker is half pear-shaped, on the four strings, originally with silk thread, now more steel wire, steel rope, nylon made.

5, flute: flute. English [flu:t], American [flut]. Is an ancient Chinese musical instrument, but also the most representative of Chinese musical instruments with the most national characteristics of the wind instrument. It is one of the most representative and ethnically distinctive of all Chinese musical instruments. One of the most commonly used cross-bladed woodwind instruments in traditional Chinese music, the Chinese bamboo flute, is generally divided into the curved flute of the south, the bang flute of the north, and the alto flute that lies in between.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Musical Instruments