bangzi

The beibangzi consists of two slats – one thick and one thin – of rosewood beaters, and is sometimes known as the shuangjimu. A sound is made when the two slats are hit against each other. The instrument is found in folk percussion ensembles of the Henan, Hebei and Shandong regions.

The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not fit these groups. The grouping of instruments in material categories in China is one of the first musical groupings ever devised.

The five core tones of Chinese scales are sometimes connected with the five elements, or wuxing (earth, wood, metal, fire, and water), while the 12 pitches of the tonal system are connected by some writers with the months of the year, hours of the day, or phases of the moon.

Pipa (琵琶 ) The Chinese pipa, a four-string plucked lute, descends from West and Central Asian prototypes and appeared in China during the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534). Traveling over ancient trade routes, it brought not only a new sound but also new repertoires and musical theory.

In the early 20th century, guoyue became a popular term used loosely to include all music written for Chinese instruments in response to a particular nationalistic consciousness. Later, after Communist victory in 1949, a new term minyue, short for minzu yinyue (民族音乐) meaning national or people's music, was used in ...

Pentatonic scale Pentatonic scale. In Chinese music, five tones of Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi and Yu are used as keynotes to produce five corresponding modes: Gong mode, Shang mode, Jue mode, Zhi mode and Yu mode respectively. The core of the traditional Chinese mode is triple-note.

Cheaper guitars are mass produced overseas in factories in China, Indonesia, and Korea where the cost of labor is much cheaper. This allows them to lower the price at the cost of quality.

Top 5 most difficult instruments to play

1. Violin. The violin is a commonly learnt instrument, so you may be surprised to see this lying at the top of this list!
2. Bagpipes. The bagpipes rank high in this list for their challenging physical demands.
3. French horn.
4. Hammond organ.
5. Accordion.

Traditional music

• Instrumental.
• Music of the Han culture.
• Chinese opera.
• Folk music.

Chinese music is as varied as the people who create it. Chinese music dates back thousands of years and sounds different from Western music thanks to important differences in tone, musical scale, pitch, instrumentation, and individual instruments.

The Chinese system concentrates in a similar way on a seven-tone scale but with a five-tone core (wu sheng) plus two changing (bian) tones to accommodate transpositions of a single mode to different pitch levels as well as modulations from one mode to another.

The simple fact is, compared to guitars made in Korean, Japan, Mexico, or America, they just won't be as good. Generally speaking, a company that makes a higher end line elsewhere isn't sending their best woods, electronic components and hardware to their budget line factory in China.