Todd Michel McComb wrote:

>...  I am particularly fond of guqin, and of course the Western
>instruments do not have such a range of tonal resources so open to
>manipulation by the player, at least not until the synthesizer.

You have whetted my curiousity.  What is the Chinese guqin.  I have
researched chinese instruments on the internet, and have come up empty.
Some other members of the list serve are also curious, I have noted.  Those
who are in to bamboo instruments know nothing of this instrument.  Is it
percussion? plucked? bowed? blown? Very interesting side thread.  Thank
you.

Jane Pierce
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