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	yangqin
		Beside daqin (struck instrument with two beaters), one of its other names means "foreign instrument" in its original Chinese character, owing to the fact that the yangqin is an adaptation of the Persian santur or some Arabian type.
		The yangqin, bright and harmonious in tone, is often used for solos and in ensembles or in the accompaniment of local operas, narratives and other vocal singings.
		Yangqin models: 401 and 402 (Beijing), 78 and 82 (Shanghai)
	www.melodyofchina.com /06instruments/yangqin.html (236 words)

	Yangqin - Biocrawler
		The trapezoidal Yangqin (洋琴, also 杨琴， pinyin yángqín) is a Chinese hammered dulcimer originally from Persia (modern-day Iran).
		The yangqin was traditionally fitted with bronze strings, which gave the instrument a soft timbre.
		The yangqin is performed both as a solo instrument and in ensembles, where it is lauded as the quintessential Chinese accompaniment instrument.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yangqin (265 words)

	Kakiseni.com - Enter The Yangqin
		Enter The Yangqin by Jess C. There are few musicians in Malaysia who are professionally trained in Chinese instruments and Don Tew Tiong Ley is one of them.
		Orchestra conductor, music director, vocalist and yangqin soloist all rolled into one, Tew currently has his heart and mind set on the yangqin or dulcimer.
		He lectures on yangqin and vocal performance at the Malaysian Institute of Art besides nurturing and conducting the Xin Yun Chinese Orchestra.
	www.kakiseni.com /articles/previews/MDIyMA.html (1071 words)

	Eason Enterprises - Music Instruments / Yangqin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yangqin is an adaptation of a Persian Arabian instrument in the early Ming dynasty, hence the name Yangqin, which also means ‘foreign instrument’ in Chinese.
		Yangqin is also known as Daqin (chinese) because sound is produced by striking the instrument with a pair of sticks made of bamboo.
		The sound of the instrument is bright and harmonious in tone and is often used for solos, in ensemble or as an accompaniment instrument for opera and song.
	www.eason.com.sg /instuments/yangqin.html (210 words)

	Yangqin
		The yangqin was traditionally fitted with bronze strings, which gave the instrument a soft timbre.
		This form of instrument is still occasionally heard today in the hudie ("butterfly") qin played in traditional silk and bamboo genre music from the Shanghai region, During the last fifty years, however, steel alloy strings have been used, in order to give the instrument a brighter, and louder tone.
		The yangqin is performed both as a solo instrument and in ensembles, where it is lauded as the quintessential Chinese accompaniment instrument.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/y/ya/yangqin.html (231 words)

	Northern Illinois University (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Few Americans play Yangqin and greater mastery of the instrument will provide me with a skill set which will be valuable in the future as a performer and instructor.
		As Yangqin is a traditional indigenous Chinese instrument, there is no finer place to study this instrument and its music than the Central Conservatory.
		To this end, the introduction and incorporation of the Yangqin and other Chinese percussion instruments into the body of courses offered through the Community Music School would be relevant and increase the prestige of the University by broadening the scope of world music at the university.
	www.niu.edu /usoar/proposals/instruments.shtml (1150 words)

	Texas Performing Chinese Arts Association
		Yangqin, or the Chinese dulcimer, has metal strings which are struck with two small bamboo hammers.
		The word Yangqin is written in Chinese by two characters denoting "foreign" (yang) and "stringed instrument" (qin).
		While conclusions are still tentative as to the yangqin 's exact place or origin, it is clear that the instrument in its early form came from outside of China.
	www.pandaus.org /music_intro.html (543 words)

	yangqin
		The yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer with a trapezoidal soundboard.
		The soundboard studied by the author, which is crowned to a height of 4 cm in the center, is supported by seven unequally spaced transverse ribs.
		They appear to be close to simply supported edges at the lower frequencies and close to clamped edges at the high frequencies.
	www.santoor.com /yangqin.html (205 words)

	Chinese Musical Instruments - Yangqin
		The Yangqin is a dulcimer played with bamboo mallets, with the size of a chopstick, and one held in each hand, are used to hit strings in pairs.
		This produces a high and tinkling timbre in its top registers, a soft and beautiful tone in the middle and a strong rich sound in the lower registers.
		We purchased this instrument in Xiamen in 1999.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Music/mus-yangqin.html (110 words)

	YouTube - "General's Orders" on Hammered Dulcimer
		actually the yangqin is an evolved form of a hammered dulcimer
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		china chinese classical music yangqin hammered dulcimer performance beijing
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=C4n4NuGaaOk (347 words)

	Age-old Art Form Struggles to Survive
		Accompanied by the yangqin dulcimer, erhu (two-stringed bowed instrument) and sihu (four-stringed bowed instrument), Beijing Qinshu is sung with a clear Beijing accent.
		The high pitch of speaking, the retroflex "r" sound, and the witticism of Beijing dialect are all shown in its singing.
		After the founding of New China in 1949, Guan and his yangqin accompanist Wu Changbao reformed the melodic and rhythmic patterns of Danqin Dagu and renamed it Beijing Qinshu, which means Beijing's storytelling with dulcimer.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/174532.htm (1213 words)

	Yueqin
		The early uses of the yangqin were used by blind men and prostitutes to entertain their patrons at gatherings.
		Today, in Modern China, the yangqin is a major discipline in the College of Music, and became an instrument of performing solos on folk songs and western orchestra works.
		It is one of the instruments of traditional performing ensembles along with the erhu, di, and pipa (2-stringed fiddle, bamboo flute, and type of lute; respectively).
	www2.seasite.niu.edu /worldmusic/Yangqin.htm (537 words)

	Chinese Arts and Music Association - Experience Chinese music, culture, and art in the United States. Based in Seattle, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yangqin originates from the Middle East and was introduced into China during the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
		Yangqin has a horizontal solid-wood box, on top of which are bronze plates and two bridges.
		Two little bamboo hammers, with the size of a chopstick and one held in each hand, are used to hit strings strung in pairs.
	www.uschinamusic.com /instrument/plucked/yangqin.php (139 words)

	Yangqin
		The yangqin is used both as a solo instrument and in ensembles, where it is lauded as the quintessential Chinese accompaniment instrument.
		If the yangqin were to have been influenced by the santur, the way of holding the mallets would had to be almost identical and using the fore and middle fingers instead of thumb and forefinger.
		The yangqin will be tune differently in order to serve its role in the Chinese culture, this further lengthen the gap between the santur and yangqin by means of different placement of pitches.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Yangqin (3023 words)

	Newsfinder e-magazine: A literary favour to world culture
		The Yangqin (扬琴) is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, with a trapezoidal soundboard, that can be generally characterized as a “chromatic” instrument.
		Its bright and harmonious tone make it often to be used not only for solos, ensembles or accompaniment of local operas but also for narratives and other vocal singings.
		Yangqin of various types are now very popular not only in China, but also in Eastern Europe, Middle East, India and Pakistan, where is also known by the names “hammered dulcimer”, “santur” and “cymbalom”.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/yangqin (332 words)

	The Heaven Of Chinese Music: Plucking (Yangqin)
		Yangqin is similar to Piano, it produces sound through hammering on the strings.
		The advantage that Yangqin has over Piano is that it can play a same note repetitively at a higher frequency than the Piano.
		During Ming Dynasty, Yangqin was commonly used in Chinese Operas.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/2682/yangqin.html (179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Accompanied by his sidekick, Yangqin, the two get a task from a mysterious and exotic woman who hires them to retrieve an item in the underground tunnels of Grarve in the wake of an incident that has been decimating Theophilus.
		Both Yangqin and Shami tell Sho that the waveform pieces must be retrieved before the Mutons absorb them.
		One good formation is to have Yangqin on one side, protecting one flank, Diez on another side up front, protecting the other flank, and Shami protecting Sho's rear from behind.
	www.gameland.ru /post/31755/crimson_sea.txt (6066 words)

	Plucked Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The yangqin is also known as the Chinese hammered dulcimer.
		The yangqin is extremely popular as an orchestral, ensemble, and solo instrument.
		Much like the yangqin, it is popular as a multi use instrument.
	nknush.kh.edu.tw /~cmusic/Instrument3.htm (343 words)

	MyMusicPark 音樂公園-Yangqin's story-Jamie Lin 林心蘋
		Born in Taichung, Lin graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts in 1995 with a Bachelor degree of Yangqin performance and earned her Bachelor from Berklee College of Music in 1998.
		She was then invited by Taichung Government to give solo and duet recital in a trip to Canada and Unite State.
		During 1998-2002, Lin worked as an arranger and recording engineer in pop and commercial musical industries while she was the soloist and major composer in Taiwan Yangqin Ensemble.
	www.mymusicpark.com /Yangqin/Artists.htm (155 words)

	instrument
		The Yangqin, a rather new instrument by Chinese standards, was transferred from Persia, as an adaptation of the Persian SANTUR.
		The yangqin is also traditionally known as hudie qin ('butterfly qin', in reference to its double-wing shaped body.
		The yangqin is now one of the principal instruments of the Chinese orchestra.
	www.brentroman.com /file/instrument.htm (711 words)

	WORLD MUSIC REVIEW: Chinese and Western Music By Lindy Li Mark (Chen Jiebing, Zhao Yangqin, September 29, 2001)
		The pieces were performed in duet and solo by Chen Jiebing on the erhu, and Zhao Yangqin on the yangqin.
		The yangqin is a hammer dulcimer with varying tunings and numbers of strings.
		The yangqin entered with an energetic passage contrasted with the melisma of the erhu.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/chinese_10_2_01.php (1149 words)

	Baymusic.net - Yangqin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The yangqin was first introduced to the Guandong province during the Ming Dynasty (1367-1644)
		Over 400 years of development and changes, the yangqin now has 5 sound bridges and is tuned with full semitones.
		Various techniques of playing the yangqin has been developed over the years, making it a very versatile instrument.
	baymusic.editme.com /Yangqin (150 words)

	The New York Flute Club: January 2007 Artist Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Liu was named Artist in Residence of the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden at the Staten Island Botanical Garden in 2003, won the COAHSI Folk and Traditional Arts Performance Award in 2004, and was a guest soloist with the British Flute Society in August 2004.
		Yangqin (hammered dulcimer) soloist Li-Qun Li was a member of the National Orchestra of China and honorable board member of China's Professional Yangqin Soloist Caucus.
		She graduated with honors from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1991 and was second prize winner of "the Freedom Cup International Chinese Instrument Solo Competition" in 1995.
	www.k-c-p.com /nyfluteclub/html/january07bio.html (512 words)

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		The yangqin is also known as the Chinese hammered dulcimer.
		The yangqin is extremely popular as an orchestral, ensemble, and solo instrument.
		The di, or di-tzu, is the traditional Chinese flute.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /features/music/instrument.html (1667 words)

	Chinese instruments
		The Yangqin is an exception which is played by using a pair of hammers to strike the strings.
		It is categorised as a member of the plucked stringed instrument probably because of its location on stage and its musical effects which are similar to other familiar members.
		Besides daqin (struck instrument with two beaters), one of its other names means "foreign instrument" in its original Chinese character, owing to the fact that the yangqin is an adaptation of the Persian santur or some Arabian type.
	www.chinesemusic.co.uk /english/pluckints.htm (1840 words)

	Stream Flowing: Traditional Music From China
		The earliest version of the yangqin was the Persian santur, a form of hammered dulcimer.
		The Chinese yangqin was introduced to China by Europeans around four-hundred years ago.
		Once the yangqin had been introduced, it became popular among ordinary people and evolved into the natural accompaniment to traditional drama and regional opera.
	www.harmonies.com /releases/13246.htm (650 words)

	Philwinds: Guest Soloist: Qu Jian Qing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She is a member of the Cimbalon World Association, a Honourary Executive Member of China Traditional Music Society Yangqin Professional Committee and is currently the yangqin Sectional Principal of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
		She was later appointed as a soloist and the Yangqin Principal.
		She has combined the traditional Yangqin performance with the technique of seniors and elevates Yangqin performing skills to new heights.
	www.philharmonicwinds.org /philwinds_guest_soloist_qu_jian_qing.htm (265 words)

	Kid Fenris: Crimson Sea Review
		Call it kitsch worship or train-wreck syndrome, yet it’s one of the reasons that I enjoyed Crimson Sea, Koei’s attempt to mix the frenetic combat of their Dynasty Warriors series with a few RPG trappings and a story untimely ripped from the guilty pleasures of overblown space opera.
		Yangqin’s yipping is mercifully interrupted, however, when a curvaceous femme fatale walks through Sho’s door, throws a job proposal on his desk, introduces herself as Live-D, and explains that she's “a mysterious and sexy woman." Settle in, folks.
		Elsewhere, Yangqin's actress has a cartoon brat voice down pat, so it's too bad that the character is one of the most irritating and needless sidekicks in the history of the medium.
	www.kidfenris.com /crimsonsea.html (1016 words)

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