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Hector Arturo Llamas Orenday:
>Hi List members: Next week our symphony orchestra will play Z. Long's
>"King Chu doffs his armour" for p'ipa and orchestra. Do you have any
>information about the author and instrument? Thanks in advance.
I'm not familiar with long, but I have a p'ipa on the wall (that I bought
in Hong Kong in 1984), it is a shallow lute instrument with high tension
strings that are wound from silk. The finger board has fret funktioning
ridges all along. I belive it is semi hollow, but have no soundhole. The
sound is very percussive, very direct. Outside china, the two best (still
Chinese) players seem to be: Wu, Man and Ya, Dong.
peter lundin, gothenburg.se - Counting the days: DSCH 100 (1906-2006)
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