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 ...

Mr Zhu is a top Erhu musician in China. Zhu was born in 1956 and start his erhu learning at the age of 7. Mr Zhu, who is also the Chairman of the Musicians' Association of Jiangsu Province and is ...

The Chinese Association of Southampton puts on music lessons every weekend where children can learn to play traditional Chinese instruments. BBC Southampton's Abbie Collins sat in on one of the ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the bow and the strings of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A professional musician from Center City is helping connect Asian American seniors with their culture. Qin Qian has played the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese violin, for 52 years.

If anything was lost in translation Saturday, it wasn”t the dulcet tones of Mei Xuan”s erhu. “Its sounds can express all kinds of emotions,” said Xuan of the ancient two-string Chinese instrument she ...

Talent is a ticket. Some people use it to nail auditions, others to get into a top school. Jia Pengfang used his to see the world, and his particular talent was the erhu. Born in 1958 in China's ...

At Guyue Qinfang, a time-honored erhu workshop in Meicun town of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, workers' making and playing of the traditional Chinese two-stringed instrument resonates with both superb ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...