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	Chinese Musical Instruments - Guqin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Guqin is the most revered of all the Chinese music instruments.
		The Guqin consists of a long, narrow upper wooden board made from the tong tree (or other trees of the pine family) and a lower board made from the catalpa tree or other hardwood.
		These two pieces of boards are stuck together and lacquered on the surface, There are 13 small dots (called hui) inlaid on the outside of the upper boards, which mark the positions of the musical notes and their harmonics.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Music/mus-guqin.html (235 words)

	About Guqin
		The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument, with a history of some 3000 years.
		Historically, the guqin has been viewed as a symbol of Chinese high culture and the instrument most expressive of the essence of Chinese music.
		There are over 150 guqin handbooks in existence, which contain in excess of 3,000 pieces of music as well as essays on the theoretical aspects of the guqin and its music.
	www.chineseculture.net /guqin/qinjieshao.html (456 words)

	Melody of Dragon \| Qin
		Guqin is about 130 centimeters in length, about 20 centimeters in width and about 5 centimeters in height.
		The seven strings of the guqin are set according to thickness with the thickest on the outside, mostly tuned according to the pentatonic scale.
		The art of guqin was absorbed and furthered by the traditional culture of these counties.
	www.melodyofdragon.org /guqin.html (348 words)

	Chinese musical instruments - string instruments: guqin,yangqin,Konghou,erhu,sanxian,liuqin...
		Ruan Xian and Ji Kang, master of guqin (Chinese 7-stringed zither), are most famous for their musical achievements and the life as true artists.
		Due to this reason, a lot of ancient repertoire were lost with the pass-away of masters or the written scores were burned or destroyed in war or turmoil.
		Since november 2003, Guqin has been registered as one of the master pieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of the humanity by the United Nations' Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) (more...
	www.philmultic.com /home/instruments (1294 words)

	Fans and players of the guqin to gather to display their pluck Oakland Tribune - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Guqin -- pronounced goo chin -- is a classic Chinese instrument that has seven strings and is more than 2,000 years old.
		The guqin is a difficult instrument, said Fred Pohlmann, who started learning to play it a year ago.
		She is a renowned player and says the guqin is very important to Chinese culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060717/ai_n16538967 (435 words)

	The Guqin - Aesthetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the case of the guqin it touches on the guqin as an object, the timbre of the instrument and the way the player uses sound colour to bring out the meaning of a piece but above all it involves a conjunction of philosophical values and musical ones.
		Buddhists had their own guqin music as well, but conflicts between Buddhism and Daoism sometimes led to Buddhists, like actors, singing girls and whores, being among the proscribed groups for whom the guqin should never be played (van Gulik 1969, p.
		The guqin was defined in terms of its capacity to calm emotions.
	www.cechinatrans.demon.co.uk /gq-aesth.html (752 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Changing China leaves guqin behind
		With only a handful of performers and teachers, the guqin - with its long resonant strings and slender wooden body - is hanging by a slender thread as it seeks to survive in a modernising environment.
		Meanwhile the guqin, with a history dating back 3,000 years and intimately bound up with other art forms, is being lost to China's past.
		"Playing the guqin was one of the accomplishments which a scholar gentleman needed to have, along with playing Chinese chess and being skilled in calligraphy," said Lin Youren, a veteran performer and teacher.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3129187.stm (577 words)

	CD Baby: WU ZIYING: The Art of the Guqin, Volume 1
		Wu Ziying is a master of the guqin 古琴 (Chinese seven-string zither) and pipa 琵琶 (Chinese four-string lute).
		The guqin is a seven string zither that has a remarkably subtle and dynamic sound.
		The guqin usually has to be overmic'd to play in concert halls and it's really intended to be heard in a very small intimate setting without amplification.
	cdbaby.com /cd/wuziying (588 words)

	Four Signs of a Scholar - Lute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Imperial China, a well-educated scholar was expected to be skilled in the four arts of qin (the guqin zither or, lute), qi(chess), shu (calligraphy/litterature), and hua (painting).
		The Guqin is a seven-stringed zither and the oldest Chinese string instrument with more than 3000 years of history.
		The name Guqin is said to be derived from the Chinese word qin for "prohibit", since its sound "restrain and check all evil passion".
	www.gotheborg.com /qa/guqin.shtml (190 words)

	Books and Music @ Quality Life International - Health Care, Sexual Enhancers and Weight Loss Products
		Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Guqin has become a symbol of the lofty thoughts of the scholars and literati in various dynasties.
		My purpose in publishing this CD is to introduce China's Guqin art to more friends and to help a new generation of talented musicians step noto the international music stage.
		At the age of 14, she began to study the Guqin under a Guqin master, Mr.
	www.qualitylifeinternational.com /Content/booksmusic.html (849 words)

	hyperborea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The guqin (pronounced goo-chin, insert bilingual dirty joke here) is the oldest of all traditional Chinese musical instruments, with a verified history of nearly three thousand years.
		("Qin" is a zither and "gu" means old, so guqin is literally "the old zither," although it is often simply referred to as the qin.) Traditionally the instrument of elite scholars, philosophers and sages, the guqin is usually considered a personal instrument to be played for meditative purposes rather than for public performance.
		Soon after I was able to locate another good CD of guqin music, Lost Sounds of the Tao: Chinese Masters of the Guqin in Historic Recordings by Lo Ka Ping on World Arbiter records (listen to a longer clip here).
	www.dromediary.com /jake/2004_03_14_archive.php (1111 words)

	Companion page for Guqin JASA manuscript - TKK Acoustics Laboratory / Research
		Friction noise produced by gliding the finger across the soundboard has a harmonic structure and is proportional to the gliding speed.
		Guqin tones are slightly inharmonic and they exhibit phantom partials.
		Building up friction and body model of the guqin synthesizer I. The friction model is use, but the body model filter is not.
	www.acoustics.hut.fi /publications/papers/jasa-guqin (418 words)

	John Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither
		Pronounced "chin" (stringed instrument) or "goo chin" (old stringed instrument), the guqin throughout its long history has been the musical instrument most prized by China's literati.
		They categorized it as one of their "four arts", collected it as an art object, praised its beautiful music, and built around it a complex ideology.
		Here my focus is guqin activities, including: performance, teaching, researching, expanding my repertoire and arranging it by theme.
	www.silkqin.com (204 words)

	Professor Li Xiangting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Professor Li Xiangting is acknowledged as one of the most important guqin players of his generation and a distinguished Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing.
		He began his qin studies in 1957 as a student of the qin master Zha Fuxi and was accepted as a student at the Central Conservatory in 1958, studying under the qin master Wu Jing-lue.
		Professor Li began improvising on the guqin in the late 1980s, and says his improvisation can be traced back to his xiao (vertical bamboo flute) playing.
	www.realmusic.com /bio_Li.htm (387 words)

	Guqin - Traditional Chinese intrumental music
		Guqin, literally meaning ancient ancient music instrument, is a seven-stringed zither without bridges.
		With a history of more than 3,000 years, Guqin music has been enlisted as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2003.
		for thousands of years, Guqin has been regarded as a very important element for education for the purpose of enriching the heart and elevating human spirit.
	www.sinohits.net /music/guqin.htm (160 words)

	Guqin, physics, guqin and tai ji quan (under contruction). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Guqin, physics, guqin and tai ji quan (under contruction).
		I have read that it would take probably about 10 years to become proficient in the playing of this instrument and I have concluded that if I practiced more, that opinion is not far from the truth.
		Recently I have become interested in the "physics" of the guqin.
	www.physics.ubc.ca /~evko/guqin.html (164 words)

	The guqin and earth’s greatest hits by Peter Micic
		I have long admired the performance space of the scholar-recluse and the guqin found in Chinese scroll paintings, seemingly removed from the snares of the “dusty world.” He might be in a pavilion that opens onto a lake or on a precipice facing upward toward the skies.
		For the guqin player, it’s paramount that the listener is truly mindful and present.
		In 2003, the guqin was selected as part of UNESCO’s ‘oral and intangible heritage of humanity’ (see this Unesco webpage).
	www.danwei.org /music/the_guqin_and_earths_greatest.php (567 words)

	Guqin yaji17 December 2002
		There is a small circle of aficionados of the guqin in the UK, most of whom are based in or near London.
		On December 17th 2002, a guqin yaji was held at the home of Cheng Yu.
		A yaji (literally “elegant gathering”) is an important part of the guqin tradition in which a small group of people gather to play the guqin.
	www.ukchinesemusic.com /qinactivities/yaji171202.htm (929 words)

	Real Music -- Professor Li Xiangting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sleeping Lotus contains eleven serene guqin and xiao improvisational tracks and is the perfect complement to an interlude of relaxing, meditating, or dreaming.
		The guqin and xiao, or seven-stringed zither and bamboo flute, date back more than 3,000 years to the origins of Chinese music.
		Improvisational guqin music, once an important part of guqin playing, died out over 1000 years ago.
	www.realmusic.com /a_Li.htm (95 words)

	Shanghaiist: Tea and Ancient Strings: Shanghai's guqin shop
		Lu Wensheng, a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and owner of the guqin shop, said his motive for opening the shop a year and a half ago was so he himself could learn the features of the guqin.
		Because of the culture's near extinction, most of the guqin's thousands of songs do not have a living link to the present and are unplayable.
		Lu largely credits the guqin's renaissance to the United Nations, which designated the guqin a world heritage culture in 2003, but he also says it's a matter of economics and interest.
	www.shanghaiist.com /archives/2005/08/18/tea_and_strings.php (891 words)

	Wenji: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute
		The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is the most revered of all the Chinese music instruments.
		It has existed in Chinese culture for 3000 years, and became the signature of a Chinese scholar.
		In Wenji: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, the guqin or qin is a particularly important symbol not only because Wenji herself was very talented on the qin as was her father, but also that it epitomizes Chinese Confucian culture.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/wenji/about/guqin.html (156 words)

	Erhu, Pipa, Guqin, Guzheng \| Chinese Musical Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a representative instrument of traditional Chinese musical culture, Guqin embody the traditional cultural values of clarity, fineness, simplicity and far-sight.
		Learning Guqin used to be regarded as playing an important role in enriching people's heart and elevating their spirit.
		As shown in the picture, this pipa is made of aged red wood (back board) and paulownia-wood (top board) with an exquisitely dragon carved on the head.
	www.shoppingchinanow.com (285 words)

	New York Qin Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He studied guqin and calligraphy with Jungping Yuan and plays on a guqin he built.
		In 1999 she attended the symposium accompanying "Resonance of the Qin" and the next year decided to begin serious study of the guqin with Yuan Jung-ping.
		In October of 2004 Dr. Gleysteen was invited to perform the guqin at the Library of Congress to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Asian American Association of the Library.
	www.newyorkqin.org /memberE.html (2217 words)

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